For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph, a Song.
1In Judah is God known:
His name is great in Israel.
2In Salem also is his tabernacle,
And his dwelling-place in Zion.
3There he brake the arrows of the bow;
The shield, and the sword, and the battle. [Selah
4Glorious art thou and excellent,
From the mountains of prey.
5The stouthearted are made a spoil,
They have slept their sleep;
And none of the men of might have found their hands.
6At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob,
Both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
7Thou, even thou, art to be feared;
And who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
8Thou didst cause sentence to be heard from heaven;
The earth feared, and was still,
9When God arose to judgment,
To save all the meek of the earth. [Selah
10Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee:
The residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee.
11Vow, and pay unto Jehovah your God:
Let all that are round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
12He will cut off the spirit of princes:
He is terrible to the kings of the earth.