Psalm 68  Lexham English Bible

68 God will arise; his enemies will be scattered,
and those who hate him will flee from before him.
² As smoke is driven off, you will drive them off.
As wax melts before fire,
the wicked will perish before God.
³ But the righteous will be glad; they will exalt before God,
and will rejoice with joy.
⁴ Sing to God, sing praises to his name.
Lift up a song to the rider on the clouds—his name is Yah—^[b]
and rejoice before him.
⁵ A father to orphans and a judge for widows
is God in his holy habitation.
⁶ God settles the lonely in a home;
he brings prisoners out into prosperity.
But the rebellious abide in a barren land.
⁷ O God, when you went out before your people,
when you marched through the desert, Selah
⁸ the earth shook; the heavens also dripped rain
at the presence of God who was at Sinai,
at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
⁹ You caused abundant rain to fall, O God.
When your inheritance was weary you revived it.
¹⁰ Your community dwelled in it.
You provided in your goodness for the poor, O God.
¹¹ The Lord gives the word.
Great is the company of women who announce:
¹² “The kings of armies flee, they flee,
and she who remains at home divides the spoil.
¹³ Though you men lie down between the sheepfolds,
you will be like the wings of a dove covered in silver
and its pinions in yellow gold.”
¹⁴ When Shaddai scattered kings on it,
on Zalmon it snowed.^[c]
15 A mountain of God^[d] is the mountain of Bashan;
a mountain of many peaks is the mountain of Bashan.
¹⁶ Why do you look with hostility, O many-peaked mountains?
This^[e] mountain God desires for his dwelling.
Yes, Yahweh will abide in it forever.
¹⁷ The chariots of God
are twice ten thousand, with thousands doubled.
The Lord is among them at Sinai, distinctive in victory.^[f]
18 You have ascended on high; you have led away captives.
You have received gifts from among humankind,
and even from the rebellious, so that Yah^[g] God may dwell there.
¹⁹ Blessed be the Lord. Daily he loads us with benefits,^[h]
the God of our salvation.^[i] Selah
²⁰ Our God is a God of deliverances,
and to the Yahweh the Lord belong escapes from death.
²¹ But God will shatter the head of his enemies,
the hairy scalp of the one who continues on^[j] in his guilt.
²² The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan;
I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,
²³ so that your foot may shatter them bloody
for the tongues of your dogs to have their share from the enemies.”
²⁴ They have seen your processions, O God,
the processions of my God, my king, distinctive in victory.^[k]
25 Singers went up front, those playing stringed instruments last,
between them young women playing tambourines.
²⁶ Bless God in the assemblies,
Yahweh from the fountain of Israel.
²⁷ There is little Benjamin ruling them,
with the princes of Judah in their throng,
the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.
²⁸ Your God has commanded your strength.
Show yourself strong, O God, by what you perform^[l] for us.
²⁹ Because your temple is above Jerusalem,
kings will bring tribute to you.
³⁰ Rebuke the beasts in^[m] the reeds,
the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples,
trampling the pieces of silver.^[n]
Scatter the nations who delight in battles.
³¹ Ambassadors^[o] will come from Egypt;
Cush will quickly stretch out her hands to God.
³² O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God;
sing praise to the Lord, Selah
³³ to the one who rides in the highest heavens of old.
See, he gives forth his voice, a mighty voice.
³⁴ Ascribe strength to God.
His majesty is over Israel,
and his strength is in the clouds.
³⁵ Awesome are you, O God, from your sanctuary.^[p]
The God of Israel, it is he who gives strength and might to the people.
Blessed be God.