Psalms 68
68
PSALM 68
Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
To the chief Musician,
A Psalm or Song of David.
1Let God arise, and scatterèd
let all his en'mies be;
And let all those that do him hate
before his presence flee.
2As smoke is driv'n, so drive thou them;
as fire melts wax away,
Before God's face let wicked men
so perish and decay.
3But let the righteous be glad:
let them before God's sight
Be very joyful; yea, let them
rejoice with all their might.
4To God sing, to his name sing praise;
extol him with your voice,
That rides on heav'n, by his name Jah,
before his face rejoice.
5Because the Lord a father is
unto the fatherless;
God is the widow's judge, within
his place of holiness.
6God doth the solitary set
in fam'lies: and from bands
The chain'd doth free; but rebels do
inhabit parched lands.
7O God, what time thou didst go forth
before thy people's face;
And when through the great wilderness
thy glorious marching was;
8Then at God's presence shook the earth,
then drops from heaven fell;
This Sinai shook before the Lord,
the God of Israel.
9O God, thou to thine heritage
didst send a plenteous rain,
Whereby thou, when it weary was,
didst it refresh again.
10Thy congregation then did make
their habitation there:
Of thine own goodness for the poor,
O God, thou didst prepare.
11The Lord himself did give the word,
the word abroad did spread;
Great was the company of them
the same who published.
12Kings of great armies foiled were,
and forced to flee away;
And women, who remained at home,
did distribute the prey.
13Though ye have lien among the pots,
like doves ye shall appear,
Whose wings with silver, and with gold
whose feathers covered are.
14When there th' Almighty scatter'd kings,
like Salmon's snow 'twas white.
15God's hill is like to Bashan hill,
like Bashan hill for height.
16Why do ye leap, ye mountains high?
this is the hill where God
Desires to dwell; yea, God in it
for aye will make abode.
17God's chariots twenty thousand are,
thousands of angels strong;
In's holy place God is, as in
mount Sinai, them among.
18Thou hast, O Lord, most glorious,
ascended up on high;
And in triumph victorious led
captive captivity:
Thou hast received gifts for men,
for such as did rebel;
Yea, ev'n for them, that God the Lord
in midst of them might dwell.
19Blessed be the Lord, who is to us
of our salvation God;
Who daily with his benefits
us plenteously doth load.
20He of salvation is the God,
who is our God most strong;
And unto God the Lord from death
the issues do belong.
21But surely God shall wound the head
of those that are his foes;
The hairy scalp of him that still
on in his trespass goes.
22God said, My people I will bring
again from Bashan hill;
Yea, from the sea's devouring depths
them bring again I will;
23That in the blood of enemies
thy foot imbrued may be,
And of thy dogs dipped in the same
the tongues thou mayest see.
24Thy goings they have seen, O God;
the steps of majesty
Of my God, and my mighty King,
within the sanctuary.
25Before went singers, players next
on instruments took way;
And them among the damsels were
that did on timbrels play.
26Within the congregations
bless God with one accord:
From Isr'el's fountain do ye bless
and praise the mighty Lord.
27With their prince, little Benjamin,
princes and council there
Of Judah were, there Zabulon's
and Napht'li's princes were.
28Thy God commands thy strength; make strong
what thou wrought'st for us, Lord.
29For thy house at Jerusalem
kings shall thee gifts afford.
30The spearmen's host, the multitude
of bulls, which fiercely look,
Those calves which people have forth sent,
O Lord our God, rebuke,
Till ev'ry one submit himself,
and silver pieces bring:
The people that delight in war
disperse, O God and King.
31Those that be princes great shall then
come out of Egypt lands;
And Ethiopia to God
shall soon stretch out her hands.
32O all ye kingdoms of the earth,
sing praises to this King;
For he is Lord that ruleth all,
unto him praises sing.
33To him that rides on heav'ns of heav'ns,
which he of old did found;
Lo, he sends out his voice, a voice
in might that doth abound.
34Strength unto God do ye ascribe;
for his excellency
Is over Israel, his strength
is in the clouds most high.
35Thou'rt from thy temple dreadful, Lord;
Isr'el's own God is he,
Who gives his people strength and pow'r:
O let God blessed be.
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Psalms 68
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PSALM 68
1 To victory, the psalm of the song of David. God rise up, and his enemies be scattered; and they that hate him, flee from his face.
2As smoke faileth, fail they; as wax floateth [or floweth] from the face of fire, so perish [the] sinners from the face of God.
3And just [or rightwise] men eat, and make they fully joy [or full out glad they] in the sight of God; and delight they in gladness.
4Sing ye to God, say ye psalm to his name; make ye [a] way to him, that ascendeth [or goeth up] on the going down, the Lord is name of him. Make ye fully joy [or Full out joyeth] in his sight, his enemies shall be troubled from the face of him,
5 which is the father of fatherless and motherless children; and the judge of widows. God is in his holy place;
6God that maketh men of one will to dwell in the house. Which leadeth out by strength them that be bound; in like manner them that make sharp [or that stir], that dwell in sepulchres.
7God, when thou wentest out in the sight of thy people; when thou passedest forth in the desert.
8The earth was moved, for heavens dropped down from the face of God of Sinai; from the face of God of Israel.
9God, thou shalt impart willful rain to thine heritage, and it was sick; but thou madest it perfect.
10Thy beasts shall dwell therein; God, thou hast made ready in thy sweetness to the poor man.
11The Lord shall give a word; to them that preach the gospel with much virtue.
12The kings of virtues be made loved of the darling; and to the fair-ness of the house to part spoils.
13If ye sleep among the midst of sorts, either heritages, yet ye shall be as the feathers of the culver that be covered of silver; and the hinder things of the back thereof be in the shining of gold.
14While the king of heaven deemeth kings thereon, they shall be made whiter than snow in Zalmon;
15the hill of God is a fat hill. The crudded hill is a fat hill;
16whereto believe ye falsely, ye crudded hills? The hill in which it pleaseth well God to dwell therein; for the Lord shall dwell into the end.
17The chariot of God is manyfold with ten thousand, a thousand of them that be glad; the Lord was in them, in Sinai, in the holy place.
18Thou ascendedest on high, thou tookest captivity captive; thou receiv-edest gifts among men. For why thou tookest also from them that believed not; for to dwell in the Lord God.
19Blessed be the Lord each day; the God of our healths shall make an easy way to us.
20Our God is God to make men safe; and outgoing [or the going-out] from death is of the Lord God.
21Nevertheless God shall break the heads of his enemies; the top of the hair of them that go in their trespasses.
22The Lord said, I shall turn from Bashan; I shall turn into the depth of the sea.
23That thy foot be dipped in blood; the tongue of thy dogs be dipped in blood of the enemies of him.
24God, they saw thy goings in; the goings-in [or in-goings] of my God, of my king, which is in the holy place.
25Princes joined with singers came before; in the middle or in the midst of young damsels singing in tympans.
26In churches bless ye God; bless ye the Lord from the wells of Israel.
27There is Benjamin, a young man; in the ravishing of mind. The princes of Judah were the dukes of them; the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.
28God, command thou to thy virtue; God, confirm thou this thing, which thou hast wrought in us.
29From thy temple, which is in Jerusalem; kings shall offer gifts to thee.
30Blame thou the wild beasts of the reed, the gathering together of bulls is among the kine of peoples; that they exclude them that be proved by silver. Destroy thou folks that will or desire battles,
31legates shall come from Egypt; Ethiopia shall come before the hands thereof to God.
32Realms of the earth, sing ye to God; say ye psalm to the Lord. Sing ye to God;
33that ascended [or went up] on the heaven of heaven at the east. Lo! he shall give to his voice the voice of virtue,
34give ye glory to God on Israel; his great doing and his virtue is in the clouds.
35God is wonderful in his saints; God of Israel, he shall give virtue, and strength, to his people; blessed be God.
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