Psalms 68:7-31

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.

²⁶Bless God in the assemblies; praise Yahweh, you who are from the fountain of Israel.

²⁷There is first Benjamin, the smallest tribe, then the leaders of Judah and their multitudes, the leaders of Zebulun and the leaders of Naphtali.

²⁸Your God, Israel, has decreed your strength; reveal to us your power, God, as you have revealed it in times past.

²⁹Reveal your power to us from your temple at Jerusalem, where kings bring gifts to you.

³⁰Shout in battle against the wild beasts in the reeds, against the peoples, that multitude of bulls and calves. Humiliate them and make them bring you gifts; scatter the peoples who love to wage war.

³¹Princes will come out of Egypt; Cush will hurry to reach out with her hands to God.