15. Is Mount Bashan the high mountain of summits, Mount Bashan [east of the Jordan] the mount of God?
16. Why do you look with grudging and envy, you many-peaked mountains, at the mountain [of the city called Zion] which God has desired for His dwelling place? Yes, the Lord will dwell in it forever.
17. The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon thousands. The Lord is among them as He was in Sinai, [so also] in the Holy Place (the sanctuary in Jerusalem).
18. You have ascended on high. You have led away captive a train of vanquished foes; You have received gifts of men, yes, of the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell there with them. [Eph. 4:8.]
19. Blessed be the Lord, Who bears our burdens and carries us day by day, even the God Who is our salvation! Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
20. God is to us a God of deliverances and salvation; and to God the Lord belongs escape from death [setting us free].
21. But God will shatter the heads of His enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as goes on still in his trespasses and guilty ways.
22. The Lord said, I will bring back [your enemies] from Bashan; I will bring them back from the depths of the [Red] Sea,
23. That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their share from the foe.
24. They see Your goings, O God, even the [solemn processions] of my God, my King, into the sanctuary [in holiness].