Psalms 68 · Verse 9

Psalms 68:9

Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
Psalms 68:9, King James Version

Psalms 68:9 in other translations

BSBYou sent abundant rain, O God; You refreshed Your weary inheritance.
WEBYou, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance when it was weary.
ASVThou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, Thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
YLTA shower of free-will gifts thou shakest out, O God. Thine inheritance, when it hath been weary, Thou hast established it.
DARBYThou, OGod, didst pour a plentiful rain upon thine inheritance, and when it was weary thou strengthenedst it.
BBEYou, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage.
WebsterThou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, by which thou didst confirm thy inheritance, when it was weary.

What does Psalms 68:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 68:9-10
9-10. a plentiful rain--a rain of gifts, as manna and quails.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 Didst send a plentiful rain - גשם נדבות geshem nedaboth, a shower of liberality. I believe this to refer to the manna by which God refreshed and preserved alive the weary and hungry Israelites.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 68:7-14

Fresh mercies should put us in mind of former mercies. If God bring his people into a wilderness, he will be sure to go before them in it, and to bring them out of it. He provided for them, both in the wilderness and in Canaan. The daily manna seems here meant. And it looks to the spiritual provision for God's Israel. The Spirit of grace and the gospel of grace are the plentiful rain, with which God confirms his…

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Psalms 68:9 in the original Hebrew

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גֶּ֣שֶׁםGe.shemrain ofH1653
נְ֭דָבוֹתNe.da.Votvoluntariness<es>H5071
תָּנִ֣יףta.Nifyou spread abroadH5130
אֱלֹהִ֑ים'E.lo.HimO GodH430
נַחֲלָתְךָ֥na.cha.la.te.Khainheritance yourH5159
וְ֝נִלְאָ֗הve.nil.'Ah<and> wearyH3811
אַתָּ֥ה'a.TahyouH859
כֽוֹנַנְתָּֽהּ\׃Kho.nan.Tahyou established itH3559

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 68:9

  • Deuteronomy 11:14

    That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

  • Ezekiel 34:26

    And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.

  • Psalms 65:9-13

    Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof. Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. …

  • Psalms 78:24-27

    And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full. He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind. He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

  • Deuteronomy 11:10-12

    For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: A land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

  • Psalms 77:16-17

    The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
didst.
65:9-13; 77:16,17; 78:24-27; De 11:10-12,14; Eze 34:26
send. Heb. shake out. confirm thine inheritance. Heb.confirm it.

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Context

  • Psalms 68:8

    The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

  • Psalms 68:9

    Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.

  • Psalms 68:10

    Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.

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Psalms 68:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Abundante lluvia esparciste, oh Dios, á tu heredad; y cuando se cansó, tú la recreaste.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
La terre trembla; les cieux aussi distillèrent des eaux devant Dieu, ce Sinaï trembla devant Dieu, le Dieu d’Israël.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Reichlichen Regen gossest du aus, o Gott; dein Erbteil-wenn es ermattet war, richtetest du es auf.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Extraneus factus sum fratribus meis, et peregrinus filiis matris meæ.