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16 You mountain of God, mountain of Bashan,
    you rugged mountain, mountain of Bashan,
17 You rugged mountains, why look with envy
    at the mountain[a] where God has chosen to dwell,
    where the Lord resides forever?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 68:17 The mountain: Mount Zion, the site of the Temple.

16 why gaze in envy, you rugged mountain,
    at the mountain where God chooses(A) to reign,
    where the Lord himself will dwell forever?(B)
17 The chariots(C) of God are tens of thousands
    and thousands of thousands;(D)
    the Lord has come from Sinai into his sanctuary.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 68:17 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text Lord is among them at Sinai in holiness

16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the Lord will dwell in it for ever.

17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

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