[4][5][6] It has often been set to music, such as Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Exurgat Deus (H.215) in Latin around 1690, for soloists, chorus, two treble instruments and continuo.

According to Gaebelein, the name of God is found in this psalm in seven different forms: Jehovah (or YHWH), Adonai, El, Shaddai, Jah (or Yah), Jehovah-Adonai and Jah-Elohim.

Psalm 68:31 forms the basis of early Rastafari messianism, which in turn arose from the Ethiopian movement: "Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God".

Early Rastafari leader Leonard Howell saw this as a prophecy that would be fulfilled when Haile Selassie I was crowned emperor of Ethiopia.

[5][4] Heinrich Schütz set Psalm 68 in a metred version in German, "Es steh Gott auf, daß seine Feind", SWV 165, as part of the Becker Psalter, first published in 1628.

Philipp Heinrich Erlebach composed Gelobet sei der Herr täglich around 1710, a church cantata for the First Sunday after Trinity beginning with Psalm 68:20.