8. The earth trembled, the heavens also poured down [rain] at the presence of God; yonder Sinai quaked at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9. You, O God, did send a plentiful rain; You did restore and confirm Your heritage when it languished and was weary.
10. Your flock found a dwelling place in it; You, O God, in Your goodness did provide for the poor and needy.
11. The Lord gives the word [of power]; the women who bear and publish [the news] are a great host.
12. The kings of the enemies' armies, they flee, they flee! She who tarries at home divides the spoil [left behind].
13. Though you [the slackers] may lie among the sheepfolds [in slothful ease, yet for Israel] the wings of a dove are covered with silver, its pinions excessively green with gold [are trophies taken from the enemy].
14. When the Almighty scattered kings in [the land], it was as when it snows on Zalmon [a wooded hill near Shechem].
15. Is Mount Bashan the high mountain of summits, Mount Bashan [east of the Jordan] the mount of God?
16. Why do you look with grudging and envy, you many-peaked mountains, at the mountain [of the city called Zion] which God has desired for His dwelling place? Yes, the Lord will dwell in it forever.
17. The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon thousands. The Lord is among them as He was in Sinai, [so also] in the Holy Place (the sanctuary in Jerusalem).
18. You have ascended on high. You have led away captive a train of vanquished foes; You have received gifts of men, yes, of the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell there with them. [Eph. 4:8.]
19. Blessed be the Lord, Who bears our burdens and carries us day by day, even the God Who is our salvation! Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
20. God is to us a God of deliverances and salvation; and to God the Lord belongs escape from death [setting us free].
21. But God will shatter the heads of His enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as goes on still in his trespasses and guilty ways.