Psalms 68:7 - Exposition

O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people (see Exodus 13:20-22 ). The present verse and the next are an echo of the Song of Deborah ( 5:4 , 5:5 ), "Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water; the mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel." When thou didst march through the wilderness. The entire march from Etham to Pisgah is in the poet's mind; but he can touch only certain features of it. And first, the scene at Sinai.