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15-16 O mighty mountains in Bashan! O splendid many-peaked ranges! Well may you look with envy at Mount Zion, the mount where God has chosen to live forever. 17 Surrounded by unnumbered chariots, the Lord moves on from Mount Sinai and comes to his holy Temple high upon Mount Zion. 18 He ascends the heights, leading many captives in his train. He receives gifts for men,[a] even those who once were rebels. God will live among us here.

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  1. Psalm 68:18 he receives gifts for men, implied in Ephesians 4:8.

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