6. He gives the lonely a home to live inand leads prisoners out into happy freedom,but rebels will have to live in a desolate land.
7. O God, when you led your people,when you marched across the desert,
8. the earth shook, and the sky poured down rain,because of the coming of the God of Sinai,the coming of the God of Israel.
9. You caused abundant rain to falland restored your worn-out land;
10. your people made their home there;in your goodness you provided for the poor.
11. The Lord gave the command,and many women carried the news:
12. “Kings and their armies are running away!”The women at home divided what was captured:
13. figures of doves covered with silver,whose wings glittered with fine gold.(Why did some of you stay among the sheep pens on the day of battle?)
14. When Almighty God scattered the kings on Mount Zalmon,he caused snow to fall there.
15. What a mighty mountain is Bashan,a mountain of many peaks!
16. Why from your mighty peaks do you look with scornon the mountain on which God chose to live?The Lord will live there for ever!
17. With his many thousands of mighty chariotsthe Lord comes from Sinai into the holy place.
18. He goes up to the heights,taking many captives with him;he receives gifts from rebellious people.The Lord God will live there.
19. Praise the Lord,who carries our burdens day after day;he is the God who saves us.
20. Our God is a God who saves;he is the Lord, our Lord,who rescues us from death.
21. God will surely break the heads of his enemies,of those who persist in their sinful ways.
22. The Lord has said, “I will bring your enemies back from Bashan;I will bring them back from the depths of the ocean,
23. so that you may wade in their blood,and your dogs may lap up as much as they want.”