Psalms 68:16-30

¹⁶You high-peaked mountains, why look you askance at the mountain which God has desired for his home whereon the Lord will live forever?

¹⁷The chariots of God are twice ten thousand: the Lord came from Sinai, his holy place.

¹⁸You did mount the height with trains of your captives, and gifts that you had received from the people. The rebels shall live with the Lord God.

¹⁹Blest be the Lord who sustains us daily, the God who is also our saviour. Selah

²⁰Our God is a God who is saviour. The ways of escape from death are known to the Lord God.

²¹Yes, God will shatter the head of his foes the rough scalp of those who strut on in their sins.

²²The Lord said: “I will bring you home from Bashan, home from the depths of the sea,

²³that your feet you may bathe in blood, and your dogs lick their share of the foe.”

²⁴In the temple appear God's triumphal processions, processions in praise of my king and my God,

²⁵with singers in front, and minstrels behind, and maidens with timbrels between them, singing,

²⁶“You of the well-spring of Israel, bless the Lord God in the dance.”

²⁷There, in front, is Benjamin the little, the princes of Judah beside them, the princes of Zebulon, princes of Naphtali.

²⁸God, show your strength, your godlike might, as you did in the past,

²⁹from your temple that crowns Jerusalem. Kings shall bring tribute to you.

³⁰Rebuke the beast of the reed, the herd of bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Trample down the lovers of lies. Scatter the nations whose joy is in war.