Psalms 68:7

O God, when you lead your people into battle, ¹  when you march through the desert, ²  (Selah)

Ex 13:21; De 4:34; Jud 4:14; Jud 5:4; Ps 114:1-8; Mic 2:13; Hab 3:12; Hab 3:13

¹ tn Heb “when you go out before your people.” The Hebrew idiom “go out before” is used here in a militaristic sense of leading troops into battle (see Judg 4:14; 9:39; 2 Sam 5:24).

² sn When you march through the desert. Some interpreters think that v. 7 alludes to Israel’s exodus from Egypt and its subsequent travels in the desert. Another option is that v. 7, like v. 8, echoes Judg 5:4, which describes how the God of Sinai marched across the desert regions to do battle with Sisera and his Canaanite army.