Psalms 60

1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A Miktam of David for instruction. When he fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!

For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, when he [had] burnt Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria Sobal, and Joab [had] returned and struck [in] the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, you have rejected and destroyed us; you have been angry, yet have pitied us.

2 You have shaken the land and torn it open. Heal its fractures, for it is quaking.

You have shaken the earth, and troubled it; heal its breaches, for it has been shaken.

3 You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.

You have shown your people hard things: you has made us drink the wine of astonishment.

4 You have raised a banner for those who fear You, that they may flee the bow.

You have given a token to them that fear you, that they might flee from the bow. (Pause)

5 Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.

That your beloved ones may be delivered; save with your right hand, and hear me.

6 God has spoken from His sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem and apportion the Valley of Succoth.

God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, and divide Sicima, and measure out the valley of tents.

7 Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.

Galaad is mine, and Manasse is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head;

8 Moab is My washbasin; upon Edom I toss My sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

Judas is my king; Moab is the cauldron of my hope; over Idumea will I stretch out my shoe; the Philistines have been subjected to me.

9 Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

Who will lead me into the fortified city? who will guide me as far a Idumea?

10 Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?

Will not you, O God, who have cast us off? and will not you, O God, go forth with our forces?

11 Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the deliverance of man.

12 With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.

In God will we do valiantly; and he shall bring to nothing them that harass us.