12. “Kings of armies flee! They flee!”She who waits at home divides the plunder,
13. while you sleep among the camp fires,the wings of a dove sheathed with silver,her feathers with shining gold.
14. When the Almighty scattered kings in her,it snowed on Zalmon.
15. The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains.The mountains of Bashan are rugged.
16. Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains,at the mountain where God chooses to reign?Yes, the Lord will dwell there forever.
17. The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands.The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
18. You have ascended on high.You have led away captives.You have received gifts among people,yes, among the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell there.
19. Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens,even the God who is our salvation. Selah.
20. God is to us a God of deliverance.To the Lord, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
21. But God will strike through the head of his enemies,the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
22. The Lord said, “I will bring you again from Bashan,I will bring you again from the depths of the sea;
23. That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood,that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”
24. They have seen your processions, God,even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
25. The singers went before, the minstrels followed after,among the ladies playing with tambourines,
26. “Bless God in the congregations,even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”
27. There is little Benjamin, their ruler,the princes of Judah, their council,the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
28. Your God has commanded your strength.Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.