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Lord, when you went out from Seir,
    when you marched out of the fields in Edom,
the earth trembled, and the heavens poured,
    the clouds poured down water.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 5:4 The point of the imagery is that God came to the aid of his people with extraordinary assistance; his “coming” is concretized by mentioning areas of southern Palestine.

The mountains quaked before the Lord,
    he who was on Sinai,
    before the Lord, the God of Israel.

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He gives a home to those who are forsaken
    and leads out prisoners amid chants of exultation,
    while rebels are forced to live in an arid land.

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[a]O God, when you set out at the head of your people,
    when you went marching through the wilderness, Selah

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 68:8 This third part recalls God’s march at the head of his people from Egypt, through the Desert of Sinai, and into the Promised Land (see Ps 60:14; Ex 13:21; 19:16; Num 14:14; Deut 33:2; Hab 3:3).