God Shall Scatter His Enemies

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song.

¹eGod shall arise, his enemies shall be fscattered;

and those who hate him shall flee before him!

²As gsmoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away;

has wax melts before fire,

so the wicked shall perish before God!

³But ithe righteous shall be glad;

they shall exult before God;

they shall be jubilant with joy!

⁴Sing to God, jsing praises to his name;

klift up a song to him who lrides through mthe deserts;

his name is nthe Lord;

exult before him!

⁵oFather of the fatherless and pprotector of widows

is God in his holy habitation.

⁶God qsettles the solitary in a home;

he rleads out the prisoners to prosperity,

but sthe rebellious dwell in ta parched land.

⁷O God, when you uwent out before your people,

vwhen you marched through wthe wilderness, Selah

⁸xthe earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain,

before God, the One of Sinai,

before God,1 the God of Israel.

⁹yRain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad;

you restored your inheritance as it languished;

¹⁰your flock2 found a dwelling in it;

in your goodness, O God, you zprovided for the needy.

¹¹The Lord gives athe word;

bthe women who announce the news are a great host:

¹²c“The kings of the armies—they flee, they flee!”

The women at home ddivide the spoil—

¹³though you men lie among ethe sheepfolds—

the wings of a dove covered with silver,

its pinions with shimmering gold.

¹⁴When the Almighty scatters kings there,

let snow fall on fZalmon.

¹⁵O mountain of God, mountain of Bashan;

O many-peaked3 mountain, mountain of Bashan!

¹⁶Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain,

at the mount that God gdesired for his abode,

yes, where the Lord will dwell forever?

¹⁷hThe chariots of God are twice ten thousand,

thousands upon thousands;

the Lord is among them; Sinai is now in the sanctuary.

¹⁸iYou ascended on high,

jleading a host of captives in your train

and kreceiving gifts among men,

even among lthe rebellious, mthat the Lord God may dwell there.

¹⁹Blessed be the Lord,

who daily nbears us up;

God is our salvation. Selah

²⁰Our God is a God of salvation,

oand to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.

²¹pBut God will strike the heads of his enemies,

the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.

²²The Lord said,

“I will bring them back qfrom Bashan,

rI will bring them back from the depths of the sea,

²³that you may sstrike your feet in their blood,

that tthe tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe.”

²⁴Your procession is4 seen, O God,

the procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary—

²⁵uthe singers in front, vthe musicians last,

between them wvirgins playing tambourines:

²⁶x“Bless God in the great congregation,

the Lord, O you5 who are of yIsrael's fountain!”

²⁷There is zBenjamin, the least of them, in the lead,

the princes of Judah in their throng,

the princes of aZebulun, the princes of Naphtali.

²⁸bSummon your power, O God,6

the power, O God, by which you have worked for us.

²⁹Because of your temple at Jerusalem

kings shall cbear gifts to you.

³⁰Rebuke dthe beasts that dwell among the reeds,

the herd of ebulls with the calves of the peoples.

fTrample underfoot those who lust after tribute;

scatter the peoples who delight in war.7

³¹Nobles shall come from gEgypt;

hCush shall hasten to istretch out her hands to God.

³²jO kingdoms of the earth, sing to God;

sing praises to the Lord, Selah

³³to him kwho rides in lthe heavens, the ancient heavens;

behold, he msends out his voice, his mighty voice.

³⁴nAscribe power to God,

whose majesty is over Israel,

and whose opower is in pthe skies.

³⁵qAwesome is God from his8 rsanctuary;

the God of Israel—he is the one who gives spower and strength to his people.

Blessed be God!