3. But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God: yea, let them rejoice with gladness.
4. Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: cast up a highway for him that rideth through the deserts; his name is JAH; and exult ye before him.
5. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
6. God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity: but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
7. O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah
8. The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even yon Sinai trembled at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9. Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
10. Thy congregation dwelt therein: thou, O God, didst prepare of thy goodness for the poor.
11. The Lord giveth the word: the women that publish the tidings are a great host.
12. Kings of armies flee, they flee: and she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil.
13. Will ye lie among the sheepfolds, as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her pinions with yellow gold?
14. When the Almighty scattered kings therein, it was as when it snoweth in Zalmon.
15. A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; an high mountain is the mountain of Bashan.
16. Why look ye askance, ye high mountains, at the mountain which God hath desired for his abode? yea, the Lord will dwell in it for ever.
17. The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon thousands: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the sanctuary.
18. Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led thy captivity captive; thou hast received gifts among men, yea, among the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell with them.
19. Blessed be the Lord, who daily beareth our burden, even the God who is our salvation. Selah
20. God is unto us a God of deliverances; and unto JEHOVAH the Lord belong the issues from death.
21. But God shall smite through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his guiltiness.
22. The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring them again from the depths of the sea:
23. That thou mayest dip thy foot in blood, that the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from thine enemies.