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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 68 To the chief Musician, A Psalm [or] Song of David. The Targum makes the argument of this psalm to be the coming of the children of Israel out of Egypt, and the giving of the law on Mount Sinai; in which it is followed by many of the Jewish interpreters: but Aben Ezra rejects such an interpretation of it, and thinks that David composed it, concerning the war he had with...
John Gill
[He that is] our God,.... Or "God for us" (q); is on our side; and is the mighty God, able to save to the uttermost; [is] the God of salvation; or "God for salvations" (r); for the obtaining of them for his people, and giving them to them, even of every kind; and unto God the Lord [belong] the issues from death; deliverance from it; Christ has abolished it, and him that had the power of it; has...
Matthew Henry
This is a most excellent psalm, but in many places the genuine sense is not easy to come at; for in this, as in some other scriptures, there are things dark and hard to be understood. It does not appear when, or upon what occasion, David penned this psalm; but probably it was when, God having given him rest from all his enemies round about, he brought the ark (which was both the token of God's...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah. He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death. All glory be to his thrice-blessed name for all that this verse includes!