6. A father of orphans, defender of widows, is God in His holy dwelling.
7. God settles the lonely in a home. He leads prisoners out to prosperity. But the rebellious live in a parched land.
8. O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the desert—Selah—
9. the earth shook, the heavens rained at the presence of God —the One of Sinai— at the presence of God, God of Israel.
10. You poured down abundant rain, O God. You sustained Your weary inheritance.
11. Your community settled in it. In Your goodness, O God, You provided for the poor.
12. The Lord gives the word— a great company of women proclaims the good news.
13. “Kings of armies, flee, flee!” She who stays at home divides the spoil.
14. When you lie among the campfires, wings of a dove were covered with silver and her feathers with shimmering gold.
15. When Shaddai scattered kings there, it was snowing on Zalmon.
16. Mount Bashan is a mountain of God. Mount Bashan is a mountain of peaks.
17. Why do you gaze with envy, you mountain peaks, at the mountain God desired for His dwelling? Yes, Adonai will dwell there forever!
18. The chariots of God are thousands and thousands —my Lord is among them as at Sinai, in holiness.
19. You went up on high. You led captivity captive. You received gifts from humanity, even from the rebellious— so that God might dwell there.
20. Blessed be my Lord! Day by day He bears our burdens— the God of our salvation! Selah
21. God is for us—a God of deliverance. Adonai my Lord has escapes from death.
22. Surely God crushes the head of His foes, the hairy scalp of one walking in his guilt.