Psalms 68:5-18

5A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.

6God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.

7When you, God, went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness,

8the earth shook, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.

9You gave abundant showers, O God; you refreshed your weary inheritance.

10Your people settled in it, and from your bounty, God, you provided for the poor.

11The Lord announces the word, and the women who proclaim it are a mighty throng:

12“Kings and armies flee in haste; the women at home divide the plunder.

13Even while you sleep among the sheep pens, the wings of my dove are sheathed with silver, its feathers with shining gold.”

14When the Almighty scattered the kings in the land, it was like snow fallen on Mount Zalmon.

15Mount Bashan, majestic mountain, Mount Bashan, rugged mountain,

16why gaze in envy, you rugged mountain, at the mountain where God chooses to reign, where the Lord himself will dwell forever?

17The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai into his sanctuary.

18When you ascended on high, you took many captives; you received gifts from people, even from the rebellious— that you, Lord God, might dwell there.