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12 Kings with large armies quickly run away.
    Yes, they run away!
The women at home share the valuable things
    that the armies have left behind.
13 Even those who stayed to take care of the sheep
    found valuable things,
like a dove with silver wings
    and bright gold feathers.[a]
14 When the Almighty God chased away foreign kings,
    it was like snow that fell on Mount Zalmon.

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Footnotes

  1. 68:13 The dove may be a valuable model made to look like a dove. Or it may be beautiful clothes that the women could wear.

12 “Kings and armies flee(A) in haste;
    the women at home divide the plunder.(B)
13 Even while you sleep among the sheep pens,[a](C)
    the wings of my dove are sheathed with silver,
    its feathers with shining gold.”
14 When the Almighty[b] scattered(D) the kings in the land,
    it was like snow fallen on Mount Zalmon.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 68:13 Or the campfires; or the saddlebags
  2. Psalm 68:14 Hebrew Shaddai