Psalm 68

A huge, at times obscure procession psalm, God marching from Sinai to Zion. In the middle of the thunder is God's heart for the vulnerable: a father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, settling the lonely in families. Paul applies verse 18 to Christ's ascension in Ephesians 4:8. It has violent lines too (verse 23) that I won't explain away.

"A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation." (Psalm 68:5)

Versions/Hebrew: 68:19 is literally "Blessed be the Lord, day by day He carries [ya'amas 6006] for us." BSB reads it as bearing our burden; KJV as loading us with benefits; YLT "day by day He layeth on us." The verb means to load or carry a load, and the Hebrew is ambiguous about what is carried.