For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.

• ¹Let God arise!
• Let his enemies be scattered!
• Let them who hate him also flee before him.

• ²As smoke is driven away,
• so drive them away.

• As wax melts before the fire,
• so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

• ³But let the righteous be glad.
• Let them rejoice before God.
• Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

• ⁴Sing to God! Sing praises to his name!
• Extol him who rides on the clouds:

• to Yah, his name!
• Rejoice before him!

• ⁵A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows,
• is God in his holy habitation.

• ⁶God sets the lonely in families.

• He brings out the prisoners with singing,
• but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

• ⁷God, when you went forth before your people,
• when you marched through the wilderness...

• Selah.

• ⁸The earth trembled.
• The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai—
• at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

• ⁹You, God, sent a plentiful rain.
• You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.

• ¹⁰Your congregation lived therein.
• You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

• ¹¹The Lord announced the word.
• The ones who proclaim it are a great company.

• ¹²“Kings of armies flee! They flee!”
• She who waits at home divides the spoil,
• ¹³while you sleep among the campfires,
• the wings of a dove sheathed with silver,
• her feathers with shining gold.

• ¹⁴When the Almighty scattered kings in her,
• it snowed on Zalmon.

• ¹⁵The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains.
• The mountains of Bashan are rugged.

• ¹⁶Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains,
• at the mountain where God chooses to reign?
• Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.

• ¹⁷The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands.
• The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.

• ¹⁸You have ascended on high.
• You have led away captives.

• You have received gifts among men,
• yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

• ¹⁹Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens,
• even the God who is our salvation.

• Selah.

• ²⁰God is to us a God of deliverance.
• To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

• ²¹But God will strike through the head of his enemies,
• the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

• ²²The Lord said, “I will bring you again from Bashan,
• I will bring you again from the depths of the sea;

• ²³That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood,
• that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”

• ²⁴They have seen your processions, God,
• even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

• ²⁵The singers went before, the minstrels followed after,
• in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,

• ²⁶“Bless God in the congregations,
• even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”

• ²⁷There is little Benjamin, their ruler,
• the princes of Judah, their council,
• the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

• ²⁸Your God has commanded your strength.
• Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

• ²⁹Because of your temple at Jerusalem,
• kings shall bring presents to you.

• ³⁰Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds,
• the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples.

• Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver.
• Scatter the nations that delight in war.

• ³¹Princes shall come out of Egypt.
• Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.

• ³²Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth!
• Sing praises to the Lord!

• Selah.

• ³³To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old;
• behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.

• ³⁴Ascribe strength to God!
• His excellency is over Israel,
• his strength is in the skies.

• ³⁵You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries.
• The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people.
• Praise be to God!