Chapter Text
68:1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme or song of David. God will arise, and his enemies shalbe scattered: they also that hate him, shall flee before him.
68:2 As the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou driue them away: and as waxe melteth before the fire, so shall the wicked perish at the presence of God.
68:3 But the righteous shalbe glad, and reioyce before God: yea, they shall leape for ioye.
68:4 Sing vnto God, and sing prayses vnto his name: exalt him that rideth vpon the heauens, in his Name Iah, and reioyce before him.
68:5 He is a Father of the fatherlesse, and a Iudge of the widowes, euen God in his holy habitation.
68:6 God maketh the solitarie to dwell in families, and deliuereth them that were prisoners in stocks: but the rebellious shall dwell in a dry land.
68:7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people: when thou wentest through the wildernesse, (Selah)
68:8 The earth shooke, and the heauens dropped at the presence of this God: euen Sinai was moued at the presence of God, euen the God of Israel.
68:9 Thou, O God, sendest a gracious raine vpon thine inheritance, and thou didest refresh it when it was wearie.
68:10 Thy Congregation dwelled therein: for thou, O God, hast of thy goodnesse prepared it for the poore.
68:11 The Lord gaue matter to the women to tell of the great armie.
68:12 Kings of the armies did flee: they did flee, and she that remained in the house, deuided the spoyle.
68:13 Though ye haue lien among pots, yet shall ye be as the winges of a doue that is couered with siluer, and whose fethers are like yelowe golde.
68:14 When the Almightie scattered Kings in it, it was white as the snowe in Zalmon.
68:15 The mountaine of God is like the mountaine of Bashan: it is an high Mountaine, as mount Bashan.
68:16 Why leape ye, ye high mountaines? as for this Mountaine, God deliteth to dwell in it: yea, the Lord will dwell in it for euer.
68:17 The charets of God are twentie thousande thousand Angels, and the Lord is among them, as in the Sanctuarie of Sinai.
68:18 Thou art gone vp on high: thou hast led captiuitie captiue, and receiued giftes for men: yea, euen the rebellious hast thou led, that the Lord God might dwell there.
68:19 Praysed be the Lord, euen the God of our saluation, which ladeth vs dayly with benefites. Selah.
68:20 This is our God, euen the God that saueth vs: and to the Lord God belong the issues of death.
68:21 Surely God will wound the head of his enemies, and the hearie pate of him that walketh in his sinnes.
68:22 The Lord hath sayde, I will bring my people againe from Bashan: I will bring them againe from the depths of the Sea:
68:23 That thy foote may bee dipped in blood, and the tongue of thy dogges in the blood of the enemies, euen in it.
68:24 They haue seene, O God, thy goings, the goings of my God, and my King, which art in the Sanctuarie.
68:25 The singers went before, the players of instruments after: in the middes were the maides playing with timbrels.
68:26 Praise yee God in the assemblies, and the Lord, ye that are of the fountaine of Israel.
68:27 There was litle Beniamin with their ruler, and the princes of Iudah with their assemblie, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
68:28 Thy God hath appointed thy strength: stablish, O God, that, which thou hast wrought in vs,
68:29 Out of thy Temple vpon Ierusalem: and Kings shall bring presents vnto thee.
68:30 Destroy the company of the spearemen, and multitude of the mightie bulles with the calues of the people, that tread vnder feete pieces of siluer: scatter the people that delite in warre.
68:31 Then shall the princes come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall hast to stretche her hands vnto God.
68:32 Sing vnto God, O yee kingdomes of the earth: sing praise vnto the Lord, (Selah)
68:33 To him that rideth vpon ye most high heauens, which were from the beginning: beholde, he will send out by his voice a mightie sound.
68:34 Ascribe the power to God: for his maiestie is vpon Israel, and his strength is in the cloudes.
68:35 O God, thou art terrible out of thine holie places: the God of Israel is hee that giueth strength and power vnto the people: praised be God.