Psalms 60

1 Unto the end. For those who will be changed, with the inscription of a title, of David himself, for instruction: when he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal, and Joab turned back and struck Idumea, in the valley of the salt pits, twelve thousand men. O God, you have rejected us, and you have ruined us. You became angry, and yet you have been merciful to us.

O God, you have cast us off, you have scattered us, you have been displeased; O turn yourself to us again.

2 You have moved the earth, and you have disturbed it. Heal its breaches, for it has been moved.

You have made the earth to tremble; you have broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shakes.

3 You have revealed to your people difficulties. You have made us drink the wine of remorse.

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

4 You have given a warning sign to those who fear you, so that they may flee from before the face of the bow, so that your beloved may be delivered.

You have given a banner to them that fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. (Selah)

5 Save me with your right hand, and hear me.

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

6 God has spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will divide Shechem, and I will measure the steep valley of the tabernacles.

God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. And Ephraim is the strength of my head. Judah is my king.

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

8 Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. Into Idumea, I will extend my shoe. To me, the foreigners have been made subject.

Moab is my pot for washing; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph you because of me.

9 Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will lead me all the way to Idumea?

Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

10 Will not you, O God, who has rejected us? And will not you, O God, go out with our armies?

Will not you, O God, which had cast us off? and you, O God, which did not go out with our armies?

11 Grant us help from tribulation. For salvation from man is empty.

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

12 In God, we will act virtuously. And those who trouble us, he will lead to nothing.

Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.