Holman Christian Standard Bible

Psalms 68:11-23 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

11. The Lord gave the command;a great company of women brought the good news:

12. “The kings of the armies flee — they flee! ”She who stays at home divides the spoil.

13. While you lie among the sheepfolds, the wings of a dove are covered with silver,and its feathers with glistening gold.

14. When the Almighty scattered kings in the land,it snowed on Zalmon.

15. Mount Bashan is God’s towering mountain;Mount Bashan is a mountain of many peaks.

16. Why gaze with envy, you mountain peaks,at the mountain God desired for His dwelling?The Lord will live there forever!

17. God’s chariots are tens of thousands,thousands and thousands; the Lord is among them in the sanctuary as He was at Sinai.

18. You ascended to the heights, taking away captives;You received gifts from people,even from the rebellious,so that the Lord God might live there.

19. May the Lord be praised!Day after day He bears our burdens;God is our salvation. Selah

20. Our God is a God of salvation,and escape from death belongs to the Lord God.

21. Surely God crushes the heads of His enemies,the hairy head of one who goes on in his guilty acts.

22. The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan;I will bring them back from the depths of the sea

23. so that your foot may wade in bloodand your dogs’ tongues may have their sharefrom the enemies.”