God [a](A)makes a home for the lonely;
He (B)leads out the prisoners into prosperity,
Only (C)the rebellious live in parched lands.

God, when You (D)went forth before Your people,
When You (E)marched through the desert, Selah
The (F)earth quaked;
The (G)heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God;
[b](H)Sinai itself quaked at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 68:6 Lit makes the solitary to dwell in a house
  2. Psalm 68:8 Lit This is Sinai which

God sets the lonely(A) in families,[a](B)
    he leads out the prisoners(C) with singing;
    but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.(D)

When you, God, went out(E) before your people,
    when you marched through the wilderness,[b](F)
the earth shook,(G) the heavens poured down rain,(H)
    before God, the One of Sinai,(I)
    before God, the God of Israel.(J)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 68:6 Or the desolate in a homeland
  2. Psalm 68:7 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 19 and 32.