2. As smoke is driven away,You drive them away;as wax melts before the fire,so may the wicked perish before God.
3. But let the righteous be glad;let them rejoice before God;let them rejoice exceedingly.
4. Sing to God, sing praises to His name;raise a song to Him who rides through the deserts—His name is the Lord;exult before Him.
5. A father of the fatherless, and a protector of the widows,is God in His holy habitation.
6. God sets the deserted in families;He brings out prisoners into prosperity,but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
7. O God, when You went forth before Your people,when You marched through the wasteland, Selah
8. the earth shook;the heavens also poured down rainat the presence of God; even Sinai shookat the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9. You, O God, sent plentiful rain;You established Your inheritance when it was weary.
10. Your congregation has lived in it;You, O God, by Your goodness have prepared for the poor.
11. The Lord gave the word;great was the company of women who proclaimed it:
12. “Kings of armies flee; they flee!”Even the women who were at home divided the spoil.
13. Though you sleep between the sheepfolds,yet you will be like the wings of a dove overlaid with silver,and its feathers with yellow gold.
14. When the Almighty scattered kings in it,it was white as snow on Mount Zalmon.
15. The mountain of God is as the mountain of Bashan;a mountain of many peaks like the mountain of Bashan.
16. Why are you envious, you mountains of many peaks?This is the mountain which God desires to dwell in;yes, the Lord will dwell in it forever.
17. The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, even thousands of thousands;the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.