“Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the Lord will dwell in it for ever.”
The rhetorical question asking why the mighty mountains look with envy at the mountain where God has chosen to dwell establishes God's choice of Zion as the dwelling place. The personification of mountains as envious suggests that even creation recognizes the preeminence of God's chosen location. This verse emphasizes that God's dwelling place is the center of cosmic significance.
Church Fathers on Psalms 68:16
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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