“Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.”
The affirmation that God sends abundant rain to sustain the inheritance articulates divine provision for the covenant people. The reference to a weary land being sustained by rain grounds the theology in concrete agricultural need and blessing. This verse articulates that God's power serves the sustenance of the people.
Church Fathers on Psalms 68:9
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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