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16 Why do you mountains with many peaks look down
    on Mount Zion, which God chose for his home?
    The Lord will live there forever.
17 God comes with millions of chariots.
    The Lord comes from Mount Sinai to his holy place.
18 He went up to the heights.
    He led a parade of captives.
    He received the payment he demanded from the people,
even from those who turned against him.
    And the Lord God will live there.

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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