Psalm 68:13
New International Version
Even while you sleep among the sheep pens, the wings of my dove are sheathed with silver, its feathers with shining gold.”

New Living Translation
Even those who lived among the sheepfolds found treasures— doves with wings of silver and feathers of gold.

English Standard Version
though you men lie among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold.

Berean Standard Bible
Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her feathers with shimmering gold.”

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, You will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, And her feathers with yellow gold.”

New American Standard Bible
When you lie down among the sheepfolds, You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver, And its pinions with glistening gold.

NASB 1995
When you lie down among the sheepfolds, You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver, And its pinions with glistening gold.

NASB 1977
When you lie down among the sheepfolds, You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver, And its pinions with glistening gold.

Legacy Standard Bible
If you men lie down among the sheepfolds, You all would be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, And its pinions with glistening gold.

Amplified Bible
When you lie down [to rest] among the sheepfolds, You [Israel] are like the wings of a dove [of victory] overlaid with silver, Its feathers glistening with gold [trophies taken from the enemy].

Christian Standard Bible
While you lie among the sheep pens, the wings of a dove are covered with silver, and its feathers with glistening gold.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
While you lie among the sheepfolds, the wings of a dove are covered with silver, and its feathers with glistening gold.

American Standard Version
When ye lie among the sheepfolds, It is as the wings of a dove covered with silver, And her pinions with yellow gold.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
If you sleep between sharpened stakes: wings of The Dove overlaid in silver and its feathers in refined gold.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Even if ye should lie among the lots, ye shall have the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her breast with yellow gold.

Contemporary English Version
And for those who stayed back to guard the sheep, there are metal doves with silver-coated wings and shiny gold feathers."

Douay-Rheims Bible
If you sleep among the midst of lots, you shall be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and the hinder parts of her back with the paleness of gold.

English Revised Version
Will ye lie among the sheepfolds, as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her pinions with yellow gold?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Though you stayed among the sheep pens, [you will be like] the wings of a dove covered with silver, its feathers with yellow gold.

Good News Translation
figures of doves covered with silver, whose wings glittered with fine gold. (Why did some of you stay among the sheep pens on the day of battle?)

International Standard Version
When you men lie down among the sheepfolds, you are like the wings of the dove covered with silver, with its feathers in glittering gold."

JPS Tanakh 1917
When ye lie among the sheepfolds, The wings of the dove are covered with silver, And her pinions with the shimmer of gold.

Literal Standard Version
Though you lie between two boundaries, | Wings of a dove covered with silver, | And her pinions with yellow gold.

Majority Standard Bible
Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her feathers with shimmering gold.”

New American Bible
though you lie down among the sheepfolds, you shall be covered with silver as the wings of a dove, her feathers bright as fine gold.”

NET Bible
When you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver and with glittering gold.

New Revised Standard Version
though they stay among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with green gold.

New Heart English Bible
while you sleep among the campfires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.

Webster's Bible Translation
Though ye have lain among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

World English Bible
while you sleep among the camp fires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.

Young's Literal Translation
Though ye do lie between two boundaries, Wings of a dove covered with silver, And her pinions with yellow gold.

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Context
God's Enemies Are Scattered
12“Kings and their armies flee in haste; she who waits at home divides the plunder. 13Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her feathers with shimmering gold.” 14When the Almighty scattered the kings in the land, it was like the snow falling on Zalmon.…

Cross References
Genesis 49:14
Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.

Judges 5:16
Why did you sit among the sheepfolds to hear the whistling for the flocks? In the clans of Reuben there was great indecision.


Treasury of Scripture

Though you have lien among the pots, yet shall you be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

Though.

ye have

Psalm 81:6
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

Exodus 1:14
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, …

the wings

Psalm 74:19
O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

Psalm 105:37
He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

Psalm 149:4
For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

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Psalm 68
1. A prayer at the removing of the ark
4. An exhortation to praise God for his mercies
7. for his care of the church
19. for his great works














(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 her

feathers 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. . . .

Verse 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?

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Though
אִֽם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you lie down
תִּשְׁכְּבוּן֮ (tiš·kə·ḇūn)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural | Paragogic nun
Strong's 7901: To lie down

among
בֵּ֪ין (bên)
Preposition
Strong's 996: An interval, space between

the sheepfolds,
שְׁפַ֫תָּ֥יִם (šə·p̄at·tā·yim)
Noun - md
Strong's 8240: Perhaps fireplaces, ash heaps

the wings
כַּנְפֵ֣י (kan·p̄ê)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 3671: An edge, extremity, a wing, a flap, a quarter, a pinnacle

of the dove
י֭וֹנָה (yō·w·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3123: A dove

are covered
נֶחְפָּ֣ה (neḥ·pāh)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 2645: To cover, to veil, to encase, protect

with silver,
בַכֶּ֑סֶף (ḇak·ke·sep̄)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3701: Silver, money

and her feathers
בִּֽירַקְרַ֥ק (bî·raq·raq)
Preposition-b | Adjective - masculine singular construct
Strong's 84: A pinion

with shimmering
וְ֝אֶבְרוֹתֶ֗יהָ (wə·’eḇ·rō·w·ṯe·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3422: Greenish, pale green

gold.”
חָרֽוּץ׃ (ḥā·rūṣ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2742: Incised, incisive, a trench, gold, a threshing-sledge, determination, eager


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