ces of
Juda are their leaders: the princes of Zabulon, the princes of
Nephthali.

67:29. Command thy strength, O God confirm, O God, what thou hast
wrought in us.

Command thy strength.. Give orders that thy strength may be always with
us.

67:30. From thy temple in Jerusalem, kings shall offer presents to thee.

67:31. Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the congregation of bulls
with the kine of the people; who seek to exclude them who are tried with
silver. Scatter thou the nations that delight in wars:

Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds... or the wild beasts, which lie hid
in the reeds. That is, the devils, who hide themselves in order to
surprise their prey. Or by wild beasts, are here understood persecutors,
who, for all their attempts against the Church, are but as weak reeds,
which cannot prevail against them who are supported by the strength of
the Almighty. The same are also called the congregation of bulls (from
their rage against the Church) who assemble together all their kine,
that is, the people their subjects, to exclude if they can, from Christ
and his inheritance, his constant confessors, who are like silver tried
by fire.

67:32. Ambassadors shall come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall soon stretch
out her hands to God.

Ambassadors shall come, etc... It is a prophecy of the conversion of the
Gentiles, and by name of the Egyptians and Ethiopians.

67:33. Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth: sing ye to the Lord: Sing
ye to God,

67:34. Who mounteth above the heaven of heavens, to the east. Behold he
will give to his voice the voice of power:

To the east... From mount Olivet, which is on the east side of
Jerusalem.-Ibid. The voice of power... That is, he will make his voice
to be a powerful voice: by calling from death to life, such as were dead
in mortal sin: as at the last day he will by the power of his voice call
all the dead from their graves.

67:35. Give ye glory to God for Israel, his magnificence, and his power
is in the clouds.

67:36. God is wonderful in his saints: the God of Israel is he who will
give power and strength to his people. Blessed be God.

Psalms Chapter 68

Salvum me fac, Deus.

Christ in his passion declareth the greatness of his sufferings, and the
malice of his persecutors the Jews; and foretelleth their reprobation.

68:1. Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David.

For them that shall be changed... A psalm for Christian converts, to
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