“Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.”
This opening invocation calling for God to arise and enemies to be scattered establishes the psalm as a call for divine action against God's foes. The imagery of God arising suggests the mobilization of divine power for action in history. The scattering of enemies indicates that God's action will dissolve the unity and power of opposition. This verse establishes the psalm as a hymn of divine triumph and the vindication of God's rule.
Church Fathers on Psalms 68:1
1. Of this Psalm, the title seems not to need operose discussion: for simple and easy it appears. For thus it stands: “For the end, for David himself a Psalm of a Song.” But in many Psalms already we have reminded you what is “at the end: for the end of the Law is Christ for righteousness to every man believing:” Romans 10:4 He is the end which makes perfect, not that which consumes or destroys. Nevertheless, if any one endeavours to inquire, what means, “a Psalm of a Song:”…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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