Psalms Chapter 68 verse 13 Holy Bible
When ye lie among the sheepfolds, `It is as' the wings of a dove covered with silver, And her pinions with yellow gold.
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Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold.
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Though ye have lain among the sheepfolds, [ye shall be as] wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with green gold.
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Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
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Kings of armies fled apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
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While you sleep among the campfires, The wings of a dove sheathed with silver, Her feathers with shining gold.
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Though ye do lie between two boundaries, Wings of a dove covered with silver, And her pinions with yellow gold.
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Psalms 68 : 13 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - Though ye have lien among the pots; rather, Will ye lie down among the sheepfolds? Will ye, O ye laggarts of Israel, like the Reubenites in the war against Sisera, instead of going out to war with your brethren, "abide among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks" (see Judges 5:16)? Yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold. It is certainly wrong to supply, yet shall ye be before as the wings of a dove." There can be no promise of good made to these laggarts. Probably the meaning is, "Will ye be," or "Will ye seek to be as the wings of a dove, covered with silver, and her feathers of yellow gold?" i.e. Will ye abide in your prosperity and your riches, decked in gorgeous apparel, resplendent with silver and gold, while your brethren are bearing the brunt of battle, with all its ghastly sights and sounds, in your and the land's defence?
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13, 14) The agreement of the ancient versions in rendering these difficult verses shows that their obscurity does not arise, as in the case of so many passages of the Psalms, from any corruptions in the text, but from the fact that they are an adaptation of some ancient war-song to circumstances to which we have no clue. If we could recover the allusions, the language would probably appear clear enough."Why rest ye among the sheepfolds?""A dove's wings are (now) covered with silver, and herfeathers with the sheen of gold.""When the Almighty scattered kings there,It was snowing on Tsalmon."Even in our ignorance of these allusions we at once recognise in the first member of this antique verse the scornful inquiry of Judges 5:16, addressed to the inglorious tribe that preferred ease at home to the dangers and discomforts of battle.The word here rendered "sheepfolds" (in the Authorised Version pots, a meaning which cannot represent the Hebrew word or its cognates in any other place) is cognate to that used in Judges 5:16, and occurs in its present form in Ezekiel 40:43, where the margin renders, "andirons, or two hearthstones." The derivation from to set would allow of its application to any kind of barrier. . . .
