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Book of Psalms, No. 68

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No. 68 of the Psalms—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ Let God arise,1 let his enemies be scattered,2
      And let those who intensely hate him flee because of him.3
  2. ¶ As smoke is driven away, may you drive [them] away;4
      As wax melts because of the fire,5
      Let the wicked ones perish from before God.6
  3. ¶ But as for the righteous, let them rejoice,7
      Let them be elated before God,8
      And let them exult with rejoicing.9
  4. ¶ Sing YOU to God, make melody to his name;10
      Raise up [a song] to the One riding through the desert plains11
      As Jah,[a] which is his name;12 and jubilate before him;
  5. ¶ A father of fatherless boys and a judge of widows13
      Is God in his holy dwelling.14
  6. ¶ God is causing the solitary ones to dwell in[b] a house;15
      He is bringing forth prisoners into full prosperity.16
      However, as for the stubborn, they have to reside in a scorched land.17
  7. ¶ O God, when you went forth before your people,18
      When you marched through the desert19—Seʹlah—
  8. ¶ The earth itself rocked,20
      Heaven itself also dripped because of God;21
      This Siʹnai [rocked] because of God,22 the God of Israel.23
  9. ¶ A copious downpour you began causing to fall, O God;24
      Your inheritance, even when it was weary—you yourself reinvigorated it.25
  10. ¶ Your tent community26—they have dwelt in it;27
      With your goodness you proceeded to make it ready for the afflicted one, O God.28
  11. ¶ Jehovah[c] himself gives the saying;29
      The women telling the good news are a large army.30
  12. ¶ Even the kings of armies flee, they flee.31
      As for her who abides at home, she shares in the spoil.32
  13. ¶ Although YOU men kept lying between the [camp] ash heaps,[d]
      There will be the wings of a dove covered with silver
      And its pinions with yellowish-green gold.[e]33
  14. ¶ When the Almighty One[f] scattered[g] abroad the kings in it,[h]34
      It began to snow in Zalʹmon.35
  15. ¶ The mountainous region[i] of Baʹshan36 is a mountain of God;[j]37
      The mountainous region of Baʹshan is a mountain of peaks.38
  16. ¶ Why do YOU, O YOU mountains of peaks, keep watching enviously
      The mountain that God has desired for himself to dwell in?39
      Even Jehovah himself will reside [there] forever.40
  17. ¶ The war chariots of God are in tens of thousands, thousands over and over again.41
      Jehovah himself has come from Siʹnai[k] into the holy place.42
  18. ¶ You have ascended on high;43
      You have carried away captives;44
    ¶ You have taken gifts in the form of men,[l]45
      Yes, even the stubborn ones,46 to reside [among them],47 O Jah[m] God.[n]
  19. ¶ Blessed be Jehovah,[o] who daily carries the load for us,48
      The [true] God of our salvation.49 Seʹlah.
  20. ¶ The [true] God is for us a God[p] of saving acts;50
      And to Jehovah the Sovereign51 Lord belong the ways out[q] from death.52
  21. ¶ Indeed God himself will break the head of his enemies in pieces,53
      The hairy crown of the head of anyone walking about in his guiltiness.54
  22. ¶ Jehovah[r] has said: “From Baʹshan I shall bring back,55
      I shall bring [them] back from[s] the depths of the sea,56
  23. ¶ In order that you may wash[t] your foot in blood,57
      That the tongue of your dogs may have its portion from the enemies.”58
  24. ¶ They have seen your processions, O God,59
      The processions of my God,[u] my King, into the holy place.60
  25. ¶ The singers went in front, the players on stringed instruments after them;61
      In between were the maidens beating tambourines.62
  26. ¶ In congregated throngs[v] bless God,63
      Jehovah,[w] [O YOU who are] from the Source of Israel.64
  27. ¶ There is little Benjamin subduing them,65
      The princes of Judah with their shouting crowd,
      The princes of Zebʹu·lun, the princes of Naphʹta·li.66
  28. ¶ Your God has laid command upon your strength.67
      Do show strength, O God, you who have acted for us.68
  29. ¶ Because of your temple at Jerusalem,69
      Kings will bring gifts to you yourself.70
  30. ¶ Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds,71 the assembly of bulls,[x]72
      With the calves of the peoples, each one stamping down on pieces of silver.73
      He has scattered[y] the peoples that take delight in fights.74
  31. ¶ Bronzeware things[z] will come out of Egypt;75
      Cush[aa] itself will quickly stretch out its hands [with gifts] to God.76
  32. ¶ O YOU kingdoms of the earth, sing to God,77
      Make melody to Jehovah[ab]—Seʹlah—
  33. ¶ To the One riding on the ancient heaven of heavens.78
      Lo! He sounds with his voice, a strong voice.79
  34. ¶ ASCRIBE strength to God.80
      Over Israel his eminence is and his strength is in the clouds.81
  35. ¶ God is fear-inspiring out of your grand sanctuary.[ac]82
      The God of Israel[ad] he is, giving strength, even might to the people.83
      Blessed be God.84

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ “As Jah.” BHSftn(Heb.), ki Yah; M(Heb.), beYahʹ, “by Jah.” Yah is the first half of the Tetragrammaton, YHWH. It occurs 49 times in M distinguished by a point (mappik) in its second letter and once, in Ca 8:6, without the mappik. TLXXSyVg, “Jehovah.” See Ex 15:2 ftn, “Jah”; App 1A.
  2. ^ According to M; by a slight correction of the Heb. verb, “bringing back the solitary ones to.”
  3. ^ One of 134 scribal changes from YHWH to ʼAdho·naiʹ. See App 1B.
  4. ^ Or, “saddlebags”; or, “sheepfolds.” The meaning of the Heb. word is uncertain.
  5. ^ “Gold.” Heb., cha·rutsʹ.
  6. ^ “The Almighty One.” Heb., Shad·daiʹ.
  7. ^ Or, “spread.”
  8. ^ “It,” fem., referring to the land.
  9. ^ Or, “The mountain.” Heb., har.
  10. ^ “God.” Heb., ʼElo·himʹ.
  11. ^ “Jehovah himself has come from Sinai,” according to the original reading of the Heb. text and in harmony with De 33:2; M, “The Sovereign Lord [Heb., ʼAdho·naiʹ] is among them, at Sinai.” See vs 11 ftn.
  12. ^ Lit., “in the men.” Heb., ba·ʼa·dhamʹ.
  13. ^ See vs 4 ftn.
  14. ^ “God.” Heb., ʼElo·himʹ.
  15. ^ “Blessed be Jehovah.” Heb., ba·rukhʹ ʼAdho·naiʹ; Gr., Kyʹri·os ho The·osʹ eu·lo·ge·tosʹ, eu·lo·ge·tosʹ Kyʹri·os, “Jehovah God [be] blessed, blessed [be] Jehovah.” See App 1B, 6D.
  16. ^ “God of.” Heb., ʼEl.
  17. ^ Or, “escapes.”
  18. ^ See vs 11 ftn.
  19. ^ “From,” MSy; TLXXVg, “through.”
  20. ^ “Wash,” by a correction of M to agree with LXXSyVg.
  21. ^ “My God.” Heb., ʼE·liʹ.
  22. ^ “In ecclesias,” LXXVg.
  23. ^ “Jehovah.” Heb., Yehwahʹ; many Heb. mss and ed., ʼAdho·naiʹ. See App 1B.
  24. ^ Lit., “powerful ones.”
  25. ^ “He has scattered,” MT; LXXSyVg, “Scatter.”
  26. ^ “Bronzeware things.” Heb., chash·man·nimʹ, of uncertain meaning; LXXSyVg, “Ambassadors.”
  27. ^ “Cush,” MSy; LXXVg, “Ethiopia.”
  28. ^ See vs 11 ftn.
  29. ^ Lit., “sanctuaries.”
  30. ^ “The God of Israel.” By a change of vowel pointing, “To Israel.” Heb., ʼEl Yis·ra·ʼelʹ; LXXSyVg, “The God of Israel.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Nu 10:35; Ps 44:26
  2. ^ Ps 59:11; Is 33:3
  3. ^ De 7:10; Ps 21:8
  4. ^ Is 9:18; Ho 13:3
  5. ^ Ps 97:5; Mc 1:4
  6. ^ Na 1:6; 2Th 1:9
  7. ^ De 12:12; Ps 32:11; 33:1; Pp 4:4
  8. ^ Pr 11:10
  9. ^ Ps 43:4
  10. ^ Ps 67:4; Is 12:4
  11. ^ De 33:26; Ps 18:10; 104:3; Is 19:1
  12. ^ Ex 6:3
  13. ^ Ex 22:22; De 10:18; Ps 10:14; 146:9
  14. ^ Is 57:15; Ac 7:48
  15. ^ 1Sa 2:5; Ps 113:9
  16. ^ Is 61:1
  17. ^ De 28:23; Ps 107:34
  18. ^ Ex 13:21
  19. ^ Jg 5:5
  20. ^ Ps 114:4, 7; Heb 12:26
  21. ^ Jg 5:4
  22. ^ Ex 19:18; De 5:24
  23. ^ Is 45:3
  24. ^ Ps 65:9; Eze 34:26
  25. ^ De 11:12
  26. ^ Nu 10:34
  27. ^ Ps 15:1
  28. ^ De 26:5; Lu 1:53
  29. ^ Ps 40:3
  30. ^ Ex 15:20; Jg 5:1; 11:34; 1Sa 18:6; Is 40:9; Ac 8:12
  31. ^ Nu 31:8; Jos 10:16; 12:7; Jg 5:19
  32. ^ Nu 31:27; 1Sa 30:24
  33. ^ Ps 105:37
  34. ^ Nu 21:3; Jos 10:10; Je 2:3; Jl 1:15
  35. ^ Jg 9:48
  36. ^ Nu 21:33; Mc 7:14
  37. ^ Mt 17:1; Mr 9:2; 2Pe 1:18
  38. ^ De 3:8, 10; Ps 42:6
  39. ^ 1Ch 11:5; Ps 48:2; 132:13
  40. ^ De 12:5; 1Ki 9:3; Heb 12:22
  41. ^ De 33:2; 2Ki 6:17; Da 7:10; Mt 26:53; Re 5:11
  42. ^ Ex 19:23
  43. ^ Ps 47:5
  44. ^ 2Sa 5:7; Eph 4:8
  45. ^ 2Sa 24:16; 1Ch 21:15; Eph 4:11
  46. ^ De 2:36; 7:22; Mt 9:13; 1Ti 1:13
  47. ^ Ps 15:1; 2Co 6:16
  48. ^ Ps 55:22; 1Pe 5:7
  49. ^ Ps 95:1
  50. ^ Is 12:2; 45:17; Ho 1:7
  51. ^ Da 4:35; Ac 4:24
  52. ^ De 32:39
  53. ^ Hab 3:13
  54. ^ Ps 55:23; Eze 18:26; Lu 13:5
  55. ^ Nu 21:33
  56. ^ Ex 14:22; Is 51:10
  57. ^ Ps 58:10; Is 63:3
  58. ^ 1Ki 21:19; 22:38; 2Ki 9:33
  59. ^ Ps 24:7
  60. ^ 1Ch 13:8
  61. ^ 1Ch 15:16; Ps 87:7; 150:3
  62. ^ Ex 15:20; Jg 11:34; 1Sa 18:6; Ps 148:12
  63. ^ Ps 26:12; 107:32
  64. ^ Ps 95:6; Is 44:2; Je 2:13
  65. ^ Ge 49:27; 1Sa 9:21
  66. ^ 1Ch 12:34
  67. ^ Ps 42:8; 71:3; Is 40:31
  68. ^ Ps 138:8; Eph 3:20
  69. ^ 1Sa 3:3; 1Ki 6:1; 1Ch 16:1; Ezr 5:14
  70. ^ 1Ki 10:10; 2Ch 32:23; Ps 72:10
  71. ^ Jb 40:21
  72. ^ 2Sa 8:5; Ps 22:12; Eze 39:18
  73. ^ 2Sa 8:2
  74. ^ Ps 120:7
  75. ^ Ps 72:9; Is 45:14; 60:5
  76. ^ Zp 3:10; Ac 8:27
  77. ^ De 32:43
  78. ^ Ps 18:10; 104:3
  79. ^ Eze 10:5
  80. ^ Ps 29:1; 96:7
  81. ^ Ps 93:1
  82. ^ Ps 43:3; 47:2; 66:5; 73:17
  83. ^ Ps 29:11; Is 40:31; Zc 10:12
  84. ^ Ps 72:18

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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