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29     from your Temple in Jerusalem,
    where kings bring gifts to you.
30 Rebuke Egypt, that wild animal in the reeds;
    rebuke the nations, that herd of bulls with their calves,
    until they all bow down and offer you their silver.
Scatter those people who love to make war![a]
31 Ambassadors[b] will come from Egypt;
    the Ethiopians[c] will raise their hands in prayer to God.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 68:30 Verse 30 in Hebrew is unclear.
  2. Psalm 68:31 Some ancient translations Ambassadors; Hebrew unclear.
  3. Psalm 68:31 Hebrew Cushites: Cush is the ancient name of the extensive territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. This region was called Ethiopia in Graeco-Roman time, and included within its borders most of modern Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia (Abyssinia).

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