Psalm 68:7-18

New International Version - UK

⁷ When you, God, went out before your people,
    when you marched through the wilderness,^[a]
8 the earth shook, the heavens poured down rain,
    before God, the One of Sinai,
    before God, the God of Israel.
⁹ You gave abundant showers, O God;
    you refreshed your weary inheritance.
¹⁰ Your people settled in it,
    and from your bounty, God, you provided for the poor.

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 sheepfolds,^[b]
    the wings of my dove are sheathed with silver,
    its feathers with shining gold.’
¹⁴ When the Almighty^[c] 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 for ever?
¹⁷ The chariots of God are tens of thousands
    and thousands of thousands;
    the Lord has come from Sinai into his sanctuary.^[d]
18 When you ascended on high,
    you took many captives;
    you received gifts from people,
even from^[e] the rebellious –
    that you,^[f] Lord God, might dwell there.