Psalms 68:2-25

²As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish in the presence of God.

³But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God; may they rejoice and be happy.

⁴Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Praise the one who rides through the plains of the Jordan River valley! Yahweh is his name! Rejoice before him!

⁵A father of the fatherless, a judge of the widows, is God in the holy place where he lives.

⁶God puts the lonely into families; he brings out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a parched land.

⁷God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness, Selah

⁸The earth trembled; the heavens also dropped rain in God's presence, in the presence of God when he came to Sinai, in the presence of God, the God of Israel.

⁹You, God, sent a plentiful rain; you strengthened your inheritance when it was weary.

¹⁰Your people lived in it; You, God, gave from your goodness to the poor.

¹¹The Lord gave the orders, and those who announced them were a great army.

¹²Kings of armies flee, they flee, and the women waiting at home divide the plunder: doves covered with silver with wings of yellow gold. When some of you people stayed among the sheepfolds, why did you do this?

¹⁴The Almighty scattered kings there, it was as when it snowed on Mount Zalmon.

¹⁵A mighty mountain is the hill country of Bashan; a high mountain is the hill country of Bashan.

¹⁶Why do you look in envy, you high hill country, at the mountain which God desires for the place he will live? Indeed, Yahweh will live in it forever.

¹⁷The chariots of God are twenty thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them in the holy place, as at Sinai.

¹⁸You have ascended on high; you have led away captives; you have received gifts from among men, even from those who fought against you, so that you, Yahweh God, might live there.

¹⁹Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, the God who is our salvation. Selah

²⁰Our God is a God who saves; Yahweh the Lord is the one who is able to rescue us from death.

²¹But God will strike through the heads of his enemies, through the hairy scalps of those who walk in offenses against him.

²²The Lord said, “I will bring my enemies back from Bashan; I will bring them back from the depths of the sea

²³so that you may crush your enemies, dipping your foot in blood, and so that the tongues of your dogs may have their share from your enemies.”

²⁴They have seen your processions, God, the processions of my God, my King, into the holy place.

²⁵The singers went first, the minstrels followed after, and in the middle were the unmarried girls playing tambourines.