To the chief musician, a psalm, a song of David
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📚✭✭May God arise, may his enemiesbe scattered,
and may those who hate him flee
from his presence.
2 📚As smoke is driven away,
drive them away.
As wax melts before the fire,
so may the wicked perish
at the presence of God.
3 📚But may the righteous be glad;
may they rejoice before God, yes,
may they rejoice exceedingly.
4 📚Sing to God, sing praises
to his name.
Extol him who rides on the heavens
by his name YHWH✭, and rejoice
before him.
5 📚✭A father for the fatherless and a
defender of widows,
is God in his holy habitation.
6 📚God places the solitary
in families.
He brings out those who are bound
with chains;
but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
7 📚O God, when you went out
before your people,
when you marched through
the wilderness, Selah
8 📚The earth shook, the heavens
also dropped at the presence
of God;
even Sinai itself was moved at the
presence of God, the God of Israel.
9 📚You, O God, sent abundant rain
which you provided for
your inheritance when
it was weary.
10 📚✭Your congregation has lived
in it.
You, O God, have provided from
your goodness for the poor.
11 📚✭The Lord gave the word;
great was the company
of those who proclaimed it.
12 📚Kings of armies hurriedly fled,
and she who stayed at home divided
the plunder.
13 📚✭Though you lie down among
the pots,
yet you will be like the wings
of a dove covered with silver,
and her feathers with yellow gold.
14 📚✭When the Almighty✭ scattered
kings in it,
it was like snow on Zalmon.
15 📚✭The mountain of God is like
the mountain of Bashan,
a high mountain like the mountain
of Bashan.
16 📚Why do you watch with envy,
you high peaks?
This is the mountain where
God desires to dwell.
Yes, the LORD will dwell in it
forever.
17 📚✭The chariots of God are twenty
thousand,
and thousands of thousands.
The Lord is among them,
as on Sinai,
in the Holy Place.
18 📚✭You have ascended on high,
you have led captivity captive,
you have received gifts among men✭,
yes, among the rebellious also,
that the LORD God might dwell
among them.
19 📚Blessed be the Lord,
who daily loads us✭
with good things,
the God of our salvation. Selah
20 📚✭He who is our God
is the God of salvation,
and to God the Lord belong
escapes from death.
21 📚✭But God will wound the head
of his enemies,
and the hairy scalp
of the one who still goes
on in his trespasses.
22 📚The Lord said, “I will
bring back from Bashan,
I will bring my people
back from the depths of the sea,
23 📚That your foot may be dipped
in the blood of your enemies,
and the tongue of your dogs
have their share.
24 📚✭They have seen your procession,
O God, the procession of my God,
my King, in the sanctuary.
25 📚The singers went in front,
the musicians followed.
Among them were the
maidens playing on tambourines.
26 📚Praise God in the congregations;
the Lord, from the fountain
of Israel.
27 📚There is little Benjamin
with their leader,
the princes of Judah and
their company,
the princes of Zebulun
and the princes
of Naphtali.
28 📚✭Your God has commanded
strength for you.
Strengthen, O God, what you have
done for us.
29 📚Because of your temple at
Jerusalem kings will bring
presents to you.
30 📚Rebuke the beast of the reeds✭,
the herd of the bulls with the
calves of the people,
until everyone submits
himself with pieces of silver.
Scatter the people who
delight in war.
31 📚Princes will come
from Egypt.
Ethiopia will soon stretch
out her hands to God.
32 📚✭Sing to God, you kingdoms
of the earth.
Oh, sing praises to the Lord, Selah
33 📚To him who rides on the heavens
of heavens, which are
of old.
See, he sends out his voice,
a mighty voice.
34 📚Ascribe strength to God.
His majesty is over Israel,
and his strength is in the clouds.
35 📚O God, you are awe-inspiring
from your holy places.
The God of Israel is the one
who gives strength and power to
his people.
Blessed be God.