Praise to God for Providing Victory

• 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—[fn]
• 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.[fn]
• 15 A mountain of God[fn] 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[fn] 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.[fn]
• 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[fn] God may dwell there.
• 19 Blessed be the Lord. Daily he loads us with benefits,[fn] the God of our salvation.[fn] 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[fn] 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.[fn]
• 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[fn] for us.
• 29 Because your temple is above Jerusalem, kings will bring tribute to you.
• 30 Rebuke the beasts in[fn] the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples,
• trampling the pieces of silver.[fn]
• Scatter the nations who delight in battles.
• 31 Ambassadors[fn] 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.[fn] The God of Israel, it is he who gives strength and might to the people.
• Blessed be God.