Orthodox Jewish Bible

Tehillim 68:11-24 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

11. (12) Adonoi gave the word; rav (great) was the tzava (company, army) of the mevaserot (heralds, those that published it, the lady evangelists).

12. (13) Melachim of tzeva'ot (armies) shall flee, they flee; and she that tarried at home shall divide the plunder.

13. (14) Though ye have lain among the cooking pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a yonah covered with kesef, and her feathers with glistening gold.

14. (15) When Shaddai scattered melachim therein, it was white as snow in Tzalmon.

15. (16) The Har Elohim is the Har Bashan; a mountain of peaks is the Har Bashan.

16. (17) Why gaze ye in envy, ye many-peaked harim? This is the har which Elohim hath chosen to dwell in; indeed, Hashem will dwell in it lanetzach (forever).

17. (18) The merkavot of Elohim are myriads, a thousand thousands; Adonoi is among them, as in Sinai, in kodesh (holiness).

18. (19) Thou hast ascended on marom (high), Thou hast led captivity captive; Thou hast received mattanot among adam; yes, even from the sorerim (the rebellious) also, that Hashem Elohim might dwell [there].

19. (20) Baruch Adonoi, Who yom yom bears us up, even HaEl Yeshuateinu (the G-d of our salvation). Selah.

20. (21) Our G-d is a G-d who saves; and from Hashem Adonoi come escapes from mavet (death).

21. (22) But Elohim shall shatter the rosh of His oyevim, and the hairy kodkod (crown of the head, scalp) of such a one as continueth on in his trespasses.

22. (23) Adonoi said, I will bring back from Bashan, I will bring back from the depths of the sea;

23. (24) That thy regel may be bathed in dahm, that the leshon of thy klavim (dogs) may partake of the oyevim.

24. (25) They have seen Thy processions, O Elohim; even the goings of my G-d, my Melech, in the Kodesh.