Psalms 68
68
Praise God Who Saved the Nation
For the director of music. A psalm of David. A song.
1Let God rise up and scatter his enemies;
let those who hate him run away from him.
2Blow them away as smoke
is driven away by the wind.
As wax melts before a fire,
let the wicked be destroyed before God.
3But those who do right should be glad
and should rejoice before God;
they should be happy and glad.
4Sing to God; sing praises to his name.
Prepare the way for him
who rides through the desert,
whose name is the Lord.
Rejoice before him.
5God is in his holy Temple.
He is a father to orphans,
and he defends the widows.
6God gives the lonely a home.
He leads prisoners out with joy,
but those who turn against God will live in a dry land.
7God, you led your people out
when you marched through the desert.Selah
8The ground shook
and the sky poured down rain
before God, the God of Mount Sinai,
before God, the God of Israel.
9God, you sent much rain;
you refreshed your tired land.
10Your people settled there.
God, in your goodness
you took care of the poor.
11The Lord gave the command,
and a great army told the news:
12“Kings and their armies run away.
In camp they divide the wealth taken in war.
13Those who stayed by the campfires
will share the riches taken in battle.”
14The Almighty scattered kings
like snow on Mount Zalmon.
15The mountains of Bashan are high;
the mountains of Bashan have many peaks.
16Why do you mountains with many peaks look with envy
on the mountain that God chose for his home?
The Lord will live there forever.
17God comes with millions of chariots;
the Lord comes from Mount Sinai to his holy place.
18When you went up to the heights,
you led a parade of captives.
You received gifts from the people,
even from those who turned against you.
And the Lord God will live there.
19Praise the Lord, God our Savior,
who helps us every day.Selah
20Our God is a God who saves us;
the Lord God saves us from death.
21God will crush his enemies’ heads,
the hairy skulls of those who continue to sin.
22The Lord said, “I will bring the enemy back from Bashan;
I will bring them back from the depths of the sea.
23Then you can stick your feet in their blood,
and your dogs can lick their share.”
24God, people have seen your victory march;
God my King marched into the holy place.
25The singers are in front and the instruments are behind.
In the middle are the girls with the tambourines.
26Praise God in the meeting place;
praise the Lord in the gathering of Israel.
27There is the smallest tribe, Benjamin, leading them.
And there are the leaders of Judah with their group.
There also are the leaders of Zebulun and of Naphtali.
28God, order up your power;
show the mighty power you have used for us before.
29Kings will bring their wealth to you,
to your Temple in Jerusalem.
30Punish Egypt, the beast in the tall grass along the river.
Punish the leaders of nations, those bulls among the cows.
Defeated, they will bring you their silver.
Scatter those nations that love war.
31Messengers will come from Egypt;
the people of Cush will pray to God.
32Kingdoms of the earth, sing to God;
sing praises to the Lord.Selah
33Sing to the one who rides through the skies, which are from long ago.
He speaks with a thundering voice.
34Announce that God is powerful.
He rules over Israel,
and his power is in the skies.
35God, you are wonderful in your Temple.
The God of Israel gives his people strength and power.
Praise God!
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Psalm 68
68
The God of Sinai and of the Sanctuary
To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David.
1Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered:
let them also that hate him flee before him.
2As smoke is driven away, so drive them away:
as wax melteth before the fire,
so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
3But let the righteous be glad;
let them rejoice before God:
yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
4Sing unto God, sing praises to his name:
extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah,
and rejoice before him.
5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows,
is God in his holy habitation.
6God setteth the solitary in families:
he bringeth out those which are bound with chains:
but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
7O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people,
when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah.
8 #
Exod 19.18. the earth shook, the heavens also dropped
at the presence of God:
even Si´nai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain,
whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance,
when it was weary.
10Thy congregation hath dwelt therein:
thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
11The Lord gave the word:
great was the company of those that published it.
12Kings of armies did flee apace:
and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
13Though ye have lain among the pots,
yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver,
and her feathers with yellow gold.
14When the Almighty scattered kings in it,
it was white as snow in Salmon.
15The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan;
a high hill as the hill of Bashan.
16Why leap ye, ye high hills?
This is the hill which God desireth to dwell in;
yea, the Lord will dwell in it for ever.
17The chariots of God are twenty thousand,
even thousands of angels:
the Lord is among them,
as in Si´nai, in the holy place.
18 #
Eph 4.8. Thou hast ascended on high,
thou hast led captivity captive:
thou hast received gifts for men;
yea, for the rebellious also,
that the Lord God might dwell among them.
19Blessed be the Lord,
who daily loadeth us with benefits,
even the God of our salvation. Selah.
20 He that is our God is the God of salvation;
and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death.
21But God shall wound the head of his enemies,
and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
22The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan,
I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
23that thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies,
and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
24They have seen thy goings, O God;
even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
25The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after;
among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
26Bless ye God in the congregations,
even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
27There is little Benjamin with their ruler,
the princes of Judah and their council,
the princes of Zeb´ulun, and the princes of Naph´tali.
28Thy God hath commanded thy strength:
strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
29Because of thy temple at Jerusalem
shall kings bring presents unto thee.
30Rebuke the company of spearmen,
the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people,
till every one submit himself with pieces of silver:
scatter thou the people that delight in war.
31Princes shall come out of Egypt;
Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
32Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth;
O sing praises unto the Lord. Selah.
33To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens,
which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice,
and that a mighty voice.
34Ascribe ye strength unto God:
his excellency is over Israel,
and his strength is in the clouds.
35O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places:
the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people.
Blessed be God.
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