Psalms 68
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.
1Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David.
2As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
2SAVE me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.
3But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
3I stick fast in the mire of the deep: and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea: and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.
4Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to the LORD, his name! Rejoice before him!
4I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse: my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.
5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
5They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.
6God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
6O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee:
7God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah.
7Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O God of Israel.
8The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai— at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
8Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
9You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance when it was weary.
9I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.
10Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.
10For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
11The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a great company.
11And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me.
12“Kings of armies flee! They flee!” She who waits at home divides the plunder,
12And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.
13while you sleep among the camp fires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.
13They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song.
14When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.
14But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy good pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
15The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged.
15Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
16Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, the LORD will dwell there forever.
16Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
17The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
17Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
18You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell there.
18And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble, hear me speedily.
19Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is our salvation. Selah.
19Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my enemies.
20God is to us a God of deliverance. To GOD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
20Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame.
21But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
21In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none.
22The Lord said, “I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea,
22And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
23that you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”
23Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock.
24They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
24Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.
25The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, among the ladies playing with tambourines,
25Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
26“Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”
26Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles.
27There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah, their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
27Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.
28Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.
28Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice.
29Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings will bring presents to you.
29Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written.
30Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls with the calves of the peoples. Trample under foot the bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.
30But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up.
31Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.
31I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him with praise.
32Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to the Lord— Selah—
32And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs.
33to him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
33Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live.
34Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his strength is in the skies.
34For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.
35You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God!
35Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every thing that creepeth therein.
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36For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up. And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance.
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37And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
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