Catholic Public Domain Version

Psalm 67:17-31 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

17. So then, why are you distrustful of dense mountains? The mountain on which God is well pleased to dwell, even there, the Lord will dwell until the end.

18. The chariot of God is ten thousand fold: thousands rejoice. The Lord is with them in Sinai, in the holy place.

19. You have ascended on high; you have taken captivity captive. You have accepted gifts among men. For even those who do not believe dwell with the Lord God.

20. Blessed is the Lord, day after day. The God of our salvation will make our journey prosper for us.

21. Our God is the God who will bring about our salvation, and our Lord is the Lord who has brought an end to death.

22. So then, truly, God will break the heads of his enemies, the hairy skull of those who wander around in their offenses.

23. The Lord said: I will turn them away from Bashan, I will turn them into the depths of the sea,

24. so that your feet may be soaked in the blood of your enemies, so that the tongue of your dogs may be soaked with the same.

25. O God, they have seen your arrival, the arrival of my God, of my king who is in a holy place.

26. The leaders went ahead, united with the singers of psalms, in the midst of girls playing on timbrels.

27. In the churches, bless the Lord God from the fountains of Israel.

28. In that place, Benjamin is a youth in ecstasy of mind. The leaders of Judah are their governors: the leaders of Zebulun, the leaders of Naphtali.

29. Command by your virtue, O God. Confirm in this place, O God, what you have wrought in us.

30. Before your temple in Jerusalem, kings will offer gifts to you.

31. Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, a congregation of bulls with the cows of the people, for they seek to exclude those who have been tested like silver. Scatter the nations that are pleased by wars.