LEB - Psalms - 68

68:1  God will arise; his enemies will be scattered, and those who hate him will flee from before him.

68:2  As smoke is driven off, you will drive them off. As wax melts before fire, the wicked will perish before God.

68:3  But the righteous will be glad; they will exalt before God, and will rejoice with joy.

68:4  Sing to God, sing praises to his name. Lift up a song to the rider on the clouds—his name is Yah— and rejoice before him.

68:5  A father to orphans and a judge for widows is God in his holy habitation.

68:6  God settles the lonely in a home; he brings prisoners out into prosperity. But the rebellious abide in a barren land.

68:7  O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the desert, Selah

68:8  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.

68:9  You caused abundant rain to fall, O God. When your inheritance was weary you revived it.

68:10  Your community dwelled in it. You provided in your goodness for the poor, O God.

68:11  The Lord gives the word. Great is the company of women who announce:

68:12  “The kings of armies flee, they flee, and she who remains at home divides the spoil.

68:13  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.”

68:14  When Shaddai scattered kings on it, on Zalmon it snowed.

68:15  A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; a mountain of many peaks is the mountain of Bashan.

68:16  Why do you look with hostility, O many-peaked mountains? This mountain God desires for his dwelling. Yes, Yahweh will abide in it forever.

68:17  The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, with thousands doubled. The Lord is among them at Sinai, distinctive in victory.

68:18  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 God may dwell there.

68:19  Blessed be the Lord. Daily he loads us with benefits, the God of our salvation. Selah

68:20  Our God is a God of deliverances, and to the Yahweh the Lord belong escapes from death.

68:21  But God will shatter the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of the one who ⌞continues on⌟ in his guilt.

68:22  The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan; I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,

68:23  so that your foot may shatter them bloody for the tongues of your dogs to have their share from the enemies.”

68:24  They have seen your processions, O God, the processions of my God, my king, distinctive in victory.

68:25  Singers went up front, those playing stringed instruments last, between them young women playing tambourines.

68:26  Bless God in the assemblies, Yahweh from the fountain of Israel.

68:27  There is little Benjamin ruling them, with the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.

68:28  Your God has commanded your strength. Show yourself strong, O God, by what you perform for us.

68:29  Because your temple is above Jerusalem, kings will bring tribute to you.

68:30  Rebuke the beasts in the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples, trampling the pieces of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in battles.

68:31  Ambassadors will come from Egypt; Cush will quickly stretch out her hands to God.

68:32  O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God; sing praise to the Lord, Selah

68:33  to the one who rides in the highest heavens of old. See, he gives forth his voice, a mighty voice.

68:34  Ascribe strength to God. His majesty is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.

68:35  Awesome are you, O God, from your sanctuary. The God of Israel, it is he who gives strength and might to the people. Blessed be God.