“A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.”
The affirmation that God is a father to the fatherless and protector of widows establishes divine compassion for the vulnerable and powerless. The reference to the lonely finding home in God indicates that those excluded from society find belonging through relationship with God. This verse articulates that divine power is exercised in protection of the weak.
Church Fathers on Psalms 68:5
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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