Psalms 68:7-25

⁷God, when you led your people out, when you marched through the desert, Selah,

⁸the earth quaked, and the heavens shook before God, the one of Sinai; before God, the God of Israel.

⁹You sent plenty of rain to water the promised land; refreshing it when it was dry.

¹⁰Your people settled there, and because of your kindness, God, you looked after the poor. Selah.

¹¹The Lord gives the command, and a great army of women spread the good news.

¹²The kings of the foreign armies are quick to run away, and the women who stayed at home divide the plunder!

¹³Why are you staying at home? There are ornaments in the shape of a dove with wings of silver and feathers of fine gold to be taken.

¹⁴The Almighty scattered the foreign kings like a snowstorm on Mount Zalmon.

¹⁵“Mountain of God,” Mount Bashan, with your many high peaks, Mount Bashan,

¹⁶why do you look enviously, mountain with many peaks, at the mountain God chose as his home, where the Lord will live forever?

¹⁷God's chariots can't be counted; there are thousands and thousands of them. He comes among them from Sinai into his Temple.

¹⁸As you ascended to your high throne you led a procession of prisoners. You received gifts from the people, even from those who had rebelled against the home of the Lord God.

¹⁹May the Lord be blessed, for every day he carries our burdens. God is our salvation. Selah.

²⁰For us, God is a God who saves. The Lord God provides our escape from death.

²¹But God will crush the heads of his enemies, the hairy heads of those who continue to sin.

²²The Lord says, “I will drag them down from Bashan; I will drag them up from the depths of the sea,

²³so that you may walk in their blood. Even your dogs will have their share of your enemies.”

²⁴People watch your processions, God—the processions of my God and King as they go into the Temple.

²⁵The singers are at the front, the musicians at the back, and in the middle girls playing tambourines.