Psalms 60

1 For the music director. According to “Lily of the Testimony.” A psalm (miktam) of David, useful for teaching, about the time he fought against Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and then Joab returned and killed 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. You, God, have rejected us! You have broken us; you have been angry with us; but now you have to welcome us back!

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 sent earthquakes on our land and split it apart. Now heal the cracks, for the land is still having tremors.

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

3 You have been very hard on your people; you gave us wine that made us stagger around.

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

4 But you have given those who respect you the banner of truth to unfurl and rally around. (Selah)

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

5 Rescue those you love! Answer us, and save us by your power!

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

6 God has spoken from his Temple: “Triumphantly I divide up Shechem, and portion out the Valley of Succoth.

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

7 Both Gilead and Manasseh belong to me. Ephraim is my helmet, and Judah is my scepter.

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

8 I will treat Moab as my washbasin; I will place my sandal on Edom; I will shout in triumph over Philistia.”

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 into the fortified city? Who will lead me into Edom?

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

10 Have you rejected us, God? Won't you lead our armies?

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

11 Please give us help against our enemies, for human help is worthless.

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

12 Our strength is in God, and he will crush our enemies.

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