15 Mount Bashan is God’s towering mountain;
Mount Bashan is a mountain of many peaks.(A)
16 Why gaze with envy, you mountain peaks,
at the mountain[a] God desired for His dwelling?
The Lord will live there forever!(B)
17 God’s chariots are tens of thousands,
thousands and thousands;(C)
the Lord is among them in the sanctuary[b]
as He was at Sinai.(D)
18 You ascended to the heights, taking away captives;
You received gifts from[c] people,
even from the rebellious,
so that the Lord God might live there.[d](E)

19 May the Lord be praised!
Day after day He bears our burdens;
God is our salvation.(F)Selah
20 Our God is a God of salvation,
and escape from death belongs to the Lord God.(G)
21 Surely God crushes the heads of His enemies,
the hairy head of one who goes on in his guilty acts.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 68:16 = Mount Zion
  2. Psalm 68:17 Or in holiness
  3. Psalm 68:18 Lit among
  4. Psalm 68:18 Or even those rebelling against the Lord God’s living there, or even rebels are living with the Lord God; Hb obscure

15 Mount Bashan,(A) majestic mountain,(B)
    Mount Bashan, rugged mountain,
16 why gaze in envy, you rugged mountain,
    at the mountain where God chooses(C) to reign,
    where the Lord himself will dwell forever?(D)
17 The chariots(E) of God are tens of thousands
    and thousands of thousands;(F)
    the Lord has come from Sinai into his sanctuary.[a]
18 When you ascended(G) on high,(H)
    you took many captives;(I)
    you received gifts from people,(J)
even from[b] the rebellious(K)
    that you,[c] Lord God, might dwell there.

19 Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior,(L)
    who daily bears our burdens.(M)
20 Our God is a God who saves;(N)
    from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.(O)
21 Surely God will crush the heads(P) of his enemies,
    the hairy crowns of those who go on in their sins.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 68:17 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text Lord is among them at Sinai in holiness
  2. Psalm 68:18 Or gifts for people, / even
  3. Psalm 68:18 Or they