Psalm 68

¹To the Overseer. — A Psalm, a song of David. Rise doth God — scattered are His enemies! And those hating Him flee from His face.

²As the driving away of smoke Thou drivest away, As the melting of wax before fire, The wicked perish at the presence of God.

³And the righteous rejoice, they exult before God, And they joy with gladness.

⁴Sing ye to God — praise His name, Raise up a highway for Him who is riding in deserts, In Jah [is] His name, and exult before Him.

⁵Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, [Is] God in His holy habitation.

⁶God — causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only — the refractory have inhabited a dry place.

⁷O God, in Thy going forth before Thy people, In Thy stepping through the wilderness, Selah.

⁸The earth hath shaken, Yea, the heavens have dropped before God, This Sinai — before God, the God of Israel.

⁹A shower of free-will gifts thou shakest out, O God. Thine inheritance, when it hath been weary, Thou hast established it.

¹⁰Thy company have dwelt in it, Thou preparest in Thy goodness for the poor, O God.

¹¹The Lord doth give the saying, The female proclaimers [are] a numerous host.

¹²Kings of hosts flee utterly away, And a female inhabitant of the house apportioneth spoil.

¹³Though ye do lie between two boundaries, Wings of a dove covered with silver, And her pinions with yellow gold.