Psalms 68:5-18

5Sing to God, sing praises to His Name. Prepare the road for Him who rides through the deserts, whose Name is Adonai— and rejoice before Him.

6A father of orphans, defender of widows, is God in His holy dwelling.

7God settles the lonely in a home. He leads prisoners out to prosperity. But the rebellious live in a parched land.

8O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the desert—Selah—

9the earth shook, the heavens rained at the presence of God —the One of Sinai— at the presence of God, God of Israel.

10You poured down abundant rain, O God. You sustained Your weary inheritance.

11Your community settled in it. In Your goodness, O God, You provided for the poor.

12The Lord gives the word— a great company of women proclaims the good news.

13“Kings of armies, flee, flee!” She who stays at home divides the spoil.

14When you lie among the campfires, wings of a dove were covered with silver and her feathers with shimmering gold.

15When Shaddai scattered kings there, it was snowing on Zalmon.

16Mount Bashan is a mountain of God. Mount Bashan is a mountain of peaks.

17Why do you gaze with envy, you mountain peaks, at the mountain God desired for His dwelling? Yes, Adonai will dwell there forever!

18The chariots of God are thousands and thousands —my Lord is among them as at Sinai, in holiness.