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68:2 \u201cLet God arise, let His enemies scatter, and let His foes flee before Him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This entire verse is a quotation of the Song of the Ark, Numbers 10:35. The sole alteration is that the imperative verbs in Numbers become optatives here (mistakenly translated as a simple future in many modern versions, though correctly represented in the King James Version). In keeping with that change, the possessive suffix attached to \u201cenemies\u201d and \u201cfoes\u201d is here third person rather than second person.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But this initial quotation leaves a question about the genre of the psalm. Some have imagined that this is a liturgical text for a ceremony in which the ark was carried into the Temple. That notion, however, involves a leap of inference: the citation of the Song of the Ark could easily have been a solemn commemorative gesture in a ceremony that did not actually involve the presence of the Ark. Verses 25-30 explicitly describe a grand procession, presumably ascending the Temple mount. Elsewhere, much of the poem is devoted to the evocation of a great military victory, with God commanding the battlefield.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is possible that the procession is a celebration of victory, but there are disorienting breaks in the text. One prominent Bible scholar of the mid-twentieth century proposed that this psalm is a collage of citations from a variety of old poems, but that extreme conclusion may be a strategy of desperation. In any case, the Hebrew text is a mixture of strong and memorable lines with phrases or whole clauses that look fragmentary or scrambled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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