“The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:”
The affirmation that the Lord will bring enemies back from the depths and the sea articulates that no hiding place is secure from divine judgment. The reference to depths and sea suggests that wherever enemies flee, God will pursue them. This verse articulates the inescapability of divine judgment.
Church Fathers on Psalms 68:22
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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