Psalms 68:11-21

11 The 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.
13 Even while you sleep among the sheep pens,[a]the wings of my dove are sheathed with silver, its feathers with shining gold.”
14 When the Almighty[b] scattered the kings in the land, it was like snow fallen on Mount Zalmon.
15 Mount Bashan, majestic mountain, Mount Bashan, rugged mountain,
16 why gaze in envy, you rugged mountain, at the mountain where God chooses to reign, where the LORD himself will dwell forever?
17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai into his sanctuary.[c]
18 When you ascended on high, you took many captives; you received gifts from people, even from[d] the rebellious— that you,[e]LORD God, might dwell there.
19 Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens.
20 Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign LORD comes escape from death.
21 Surely God will crush the heads of his enemies, the hairy crowns of those who go on in their sins.

Cross References 22

  • 1. Luke 2:13
  • 2. Joshua 10:16
  • 3. S Judges 5:30
  • 4. S Genesis 49:14
  • 5. 2 Samuel 22:15; Joshua 10:10
  • 6. Judges 9:48
  • 7. ver 22; Numbers 21:33; Jeremiah 22:20
  • 8. S Psalms 36:6
  • 9. Deuteronomy 12:5; S Psalms 2:6; Psalms 132:13
  • 10. Psalms 132:14
  • 11. S 2 Kings 2:11; Isaiah 66:15; Habakkuk 3:8
  • 12. Deuteronomy 33:2; Daniel 7:10
  • 13. S Psalms 47:5
  • 14. Psalms 7:7
  • 15. Judges 5:12
  • 16. Ephesians 4:8*
  • 17. S Numbers 17:10
  • 18. S Psalms 65:5
  • 19. Psalms 81:6; Psalms 55:22
  • 20. S 1 Samuel 10:19
  • 21. Psalms 56:13; Jeremiah 45:5; Ezekiel 6:8
  • 22. Psalms 74:14; Psalms 110:5; Habakkuk 3:13

Footnotes 5

  • [a]. Or "the campfires;" or "the saddlebags"
  • [b]. Hebrew "Shaddai"
  • [c]. Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text "Lord is among them at Sinai in holiness"
  • [d]. Or "gifts for people," / "even"
  • [e]. Or "they"
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