{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "psalms", "chapter": 68 }, "data": { "n": 68, "bookSlug": "psalms", "bookCode": "PSA", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "PSA-68:1", "verseRef": "Ps.68.1", "text": "Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; Let them also that hate him flee before him." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "PSA-68:2", "verseRef": "Ps.68.2", "text": "As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of God." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "PSA-68:3", "verseRef": "Ps.68.3", "text": "But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God: Yea, let them rejoice with gladness." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "PSA-68:4", "verseRef": "Ps.68.4", "text": "Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: Cast up a highway for him that rideth through the deserts; His name is Jehovah; and exult ye before him." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "PSA-68:5", "verseRef": "Ps.68.5", "text": "A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "PSA-68:6", "verseRef": "Ps.68.6", "text": "God setteth the solitary in families: He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a parched land." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "PSA-68:7", "verseRef": "Ps.68.7", "text": "O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, When thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah" },{ "n": 8, "refId": "PSA-68:8", "verseRef": "Ps.68.8", "text": "The earth trembled, The heavens also dropped [rain] at the presence of God: Yon Sinai [trembled] at the presence of God, the God of Israel." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "PSA-68:9", "verseRef": "Ps.68.9", "text": "Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, Thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "PSA-68:10", "verseRef": "Ps.68.10", "text": "Thy congregation dwelt therein: Thou, O God, didst prepare of thy goodness for the poor." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "PSA-68:11", "verseRef": "Ps.68.11", "text": "The Lord giveth the word: The women that publish the tidings are a great host." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "PSA-68:12", "verseRef": "Ps.68.12", "text": "Kings of armies flee, they flee; And she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "PSA-68:13", "verseRef": "Ps.68.13", "text": "When ye lie among the sheepfolds, [It is as] the wings of a dove covered with silver, And her pinions with yellow gold." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "PSA-68:14", "verseRef": "Ps.68.14", "text": "When the Almighty scattered kings therein, [It was as when] it snoweth in Zalmon." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "PSA-68:15", "verseRef": "Ps.68.15", "text": "A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; A high mountain is the mountain of Bashan." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "PSA-68:16", "verseRef": "Ps.68.16", "text": "Why look ye askance, ye high mountains, At the mountain which God hath desired for his abode? Yea, Jehovah will dwell [in it] for ever." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "PSA-68:17", "verseRef": "Ps.68.17", "text": "The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon thousands; The Lord is among them, [as in] Sinai, in the sanctuary." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "PSA-68:18", "verseRef": "Ps.68.18", "text": "Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led away captives; Thou hast received gifts among men, Yea, [among] the rebellious also, that Jehovah God might dwell [with them]." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "PSA-68:19", "verseRef": "Ps.68.19", "text": "Blessed be the Lord, who daily beareth our burden, Even the God who is our salvation. Selah" },{ "n": 20, "refId": "PSA-68:20", "verseRef": "Ps.68.20", "text": "God is unto us a God of deliverances; And unto Jehovah the Lord belongeth escape from death." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "PSA-68:21", "verseRef": "Ps.68.21", "text": "But God will smite through the head of his enemies, The hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his guiltiness." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "PSA-68:22", "verseRef": "Ps.68.22", "text": "The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring [them] again from the depths of the sea;" },{ "n": 23, "refId": "PSA-68:23", "verseRef": "Ps.68.23", "text": "That thou mayest crush [them], [dipping] thy foot in blood, That the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from [thine] enemies." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "PSA-68:24", "verseRef": "Ps.68.24", "text": "They have seen thy goings, O God, Even the goings of my God, my King, into the sanctuary." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "PSA-68:25", "verseRef": "Ps.68.25", "text": "The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, In the midst of the damsels playing with timbrels." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "PSA-68:26", "verseRef": "Ps.68.26", "text": "Bless ye God in the congregations, Even the Lord, [ye that are] of the fountain of Israel." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "PSA-68:27", "verseRef": "Ps.68.27", "text": "There is little Benjamin their ruler, The princes of Judah [and] their council, The princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "PSA-68:28", "verseRef": "Ps.68.28", "text": "Thy God hath commanded thy strength: Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "PSA-68:29", "verseRef": "Ps.68.29", "text": "Because of thy temple at Jerusalem Kings shall bring presents unto thee." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "PSA-68:30", "verseRef": "Ps.68.30", "text": "Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds, The multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples, Trampling under foot the pieces of silver: He hath scattered the peoples that delight in war." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "PSA-68:31", "verseRef": "Ps.68.31", "text": "Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall haste to stretch out her hands unto God." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "PSA-68:32", "verseRef": "Ps.68.32", "text": "Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; Oh sing praises unto the Lord; Selah" },{ "n": 33, "refId": "PSA-68:33", "verseRef": "Ps.68.33", "text": "To him that rideth upon the heaven of heavens, which are of old; Lo, he uttereth his voice, a mighty voice." },{ "n": 34, "refId": "PSA-68:34", "verseRef": "Ps.68.34", "text": "Ascribe ye strength unto God: His excellency is over Israel, And his strength is in the skies." },{ "n": 35, "refId": "PSA-68:35", "verseRef": "Ps.68.35", "text": "O God, [thou art] terrible out of thy holy places: The God of Israel, he giveth strength and power unto [his] people. Blessed be God. Psalm 69 For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshanim. [A Psalm] of David." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/psalms/chapters/68", "book": "/v1/library/books/psalms/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/psalms/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }