Psalm 76

Who Can Stand Before You?

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.

¹In Judah God is known;

his name is great in Israel.

²His abode has been established in Salem,

his dwelling place in Zion.

³There he broke the flashing arrows,

the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah

⁴Glorious are you, more majestic

than the mountains full of prey.

⁵The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil;

they sank into sleep;

all the men of war

were unable to use their hands.

⁶At your rebuke, O God of Jacob,

both rider and horse lay stunned.

⁷But you, you are to be feared!

Who can stand before you

when once your anger is roused?

⁸From the heavens you uttered judgment;

the earth feared and was still,

⁹when God arose to establish judgment,

to save all the humble of the earth. Selah

¹⁰Surely the wrath of man shall praise you;

the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.

¹¹Make your vows to the Lord your God and perform them;

let all around him bring gifts

to him who is to be feared,

¹²who cuts off the spirit of princes,

who is to be feared by the kings of the earth.