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16 (15) You mighty mountain, Mount Bashan!
You rugged mountain, Mount Bashan!
17 (16) You rugged mountain, why look with envy
at the mountain God wants for his place to live?
Truly, Adonai will live there forever.
18 (17) God’s chariots are myriads, repeated thousands;
Adonai is among them as in Sinai, in holiness.

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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]
18 When you ascended(E) on high,(F)
    you took many captives;(G)
    you received gifts from people,(H)
even from[b] the rebellious(I)
    that you,[c] Lord God, might dwell there.

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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
  2. Psalm 68:18 Or gifts for people, / even
  3. Psalm 68:18 Or they