15 Mount Bashan is God’s towering mountain;
Mount Bashan is a mountain of many peaks.(A)
16 Why gaze with envy, you mountain peaks,
at the mountain[a] God desired for His dwelling?
The Lord will live there forever!(B)
17 God’s chariots are tens of thousands,
thousands and thousands;(C)
the Lord is among them in the sanctuary[b]
as He was at Sinai.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 68:16 = Mount Zion
  2. Psalm 68:17 Or in holiness

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

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