Let God’s Enemies Be Scattered
For the choir director. A Psalm of David. A Song.
Let aGod arise, let His enemies be scattered,
And let those who hate Him flee before Him.
2 As asmoke is driven away, so drive them away;
As bwax melts before the fire,
So let the cwicked perish before God.
3 But let the arighteous be glad; let them exult before God;
And let them rejoice with gladness.
4 Sing to God, asing praises to His name;
bLift up a song for Him who crides through the deserts,
Whose dname is Yah, and exult before Him.
5 A afather of the fatherless and a bjudge for the widows,
Is God in His choly habitation.
6 God acauses the lonely to inhabit a home;
He bleads out the prisoners into prosperity,
Only cthe rebellious dwell in a parched land.
7 O God, when You awent forth before Your people,
When You bmarched through the wasteland, Selah.
8 The aearth quaked;
The bheavens also dripped rain at the presence of God;
cSinai itself quaked at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9 You acaused abundant rain to sprinkle down, O God;
You established Your inheritance when it was parched.
10 Your creatures inhabited it;
You aestablished it in Your goodness for the poor, O God.
11 The Lord gives the word;
The awomen who proclaim the good news are a great host:
12 “aKings of armies retreat, they retreat,
And she who remains at home will bdivide the spoil!”
13 If you men lie down aamong the sheepfolds,
You all would be like the wings of a dove covered with silver,
And its pinions with glistening gold.
14 When the Almighty adispersed the kings there,
It was snowing in bZalmon.
15 A amountain of God is the mountain of Bashan;
A mountain of many peaks is the mountain of Bashan.
16 Why do you look with envy, O mountains with many peaks,
At the mountain which God has aprized for His habitation?
Surely bYahweh will dwell there forever.
17 The achariots of God are myriads, bthousands upon thousands;
The Lord is among them as at Sinai, in holiness.
18 You have aascended on high, You have bled captive Your captives;
You have received gifts among men,
Even among the rebellious also, that Yah—God—may dwell there.
19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily abears our burden,
bThe God who is our salvation. Selah.
20 God is to us a aGod of salvation;
And bto Yahweh the Lord belong escapes from death.
21 Surely God will acrush the head of His enemies,
The hairy skull of him who goes on in his guilty deeds.
22 The Lord said, “aI will bring them back from Bashan.
I will bring them back from the depths of the sea;
23 That ayour foot may crush them in blood,
The tongue of your bdogs may have its portion from your enemies.”
24 They have seen aYour procession, O God,
The procession of my God, my King, binto the sanctuary.
25 The asingers went on, the musicians after them,
In the midst of the bmaidens beating tambourines.
26 aBless God in the congregations,
Yahweh, the bfountain of Israel.
27 There is aBenjamin, the youngest, having dominion over them,
The princes of Judah in their throng,
The princes of bZebulun, the princes of Naphtali.
28 Your God has acommanded your strength;
Show Yourself strong, O God, bwho has worked on our behalf.
29 Because of Your temple at Jerusalem
aKings will bring gifts to You.
30 Rebuke the abeast in the reeds,
The herd of bbulls with the calves of the peoples,
Trampling under foot the pieces of silver;
He has ccast out the peoples who delight in war.
31 Envoys will come out of aEgypt;
bEthiopia will quickly stretch out her hands to God.
32 Sing to God, O akingdoms of the earth,
bSing praises to the Lord, Selah.
33 To Him who arides upon the bhighest heavens, which are from ancient times;
Behold, cHe gives forth His voice, a dvoice that is strong.
34 aAscribe strength to God;
His majesty is over Israel
And bHis strength is in the skies.
35 O God, You are aawesome from Your sanctuary.
The God of Israel Himself bgives strength and might to the people.
cBlessed be God!