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!
In finem, pro his qui immutabuntur, in tituli inscriptionem ipsi David, in doctrinam, cum succendit Mesopotamiam Syriæ et Sobal, et convertit Joab, et percussit Idumæam in valle Salinarum duodecim millia. Deus, repulisti nos, et destruxisti nos; iratus es, et misertus es nobis.
2 You have sent earthquakes on our land and split it apart. Now heal the cracks, for the land is still having tremors.
Commovisti terram, et conturbasti eam; sana contritiones ejus, quia commota est.
3 You have been very hard on your people; you gave us wine that made us stagger around.
Ostendisti populo tuo dura; potasti nos vino compunctionis.
4 But you have given those who respect you the banner of truth to unfurl and rally around. (Selah)
Dedisti metuentibus te significationem, ut fugiant a facie arcus; ut liberentur dilecti tui.
5 Rescue those you love! Answer us, and save us by your power!
Salvum fac dextera tua, et exaudi me.
6 God has spoken from his Temple: “Triumphantly I divide up Shechem, and portion out the Valley of Succoth.
Deus locutus est in sancto suo: lætabor, et partibor Sichimam; et convallem tabernaculorum metibor.
7 Both Gilead and Manasseh belong to me. Ephraim is my helmet, and Judah is my scepter.
Meus est Galaad, et meus est Manasses; et Ephraim fortitudo capitis mei. Juda rex meus;
8 I will treat Moab as my washbasin; I will place my sandal on Edom; I will shout in triumph over Philistia.”
Moab olla spei meæ. In Idumæam extendam calceamentum meum: mihi alienigenæ subditi sunt.
9 Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who will lead me into Edom?
Quis deducet me in civitatem munitam? quis deducet me usque in Idumæam?
10 Have you rejected us, God? Won't you lead our armies?
nonne tu, Deus, qui repulisti nos? et non egredieris, Deus, in virtutibus nostris?
11 Please give us help against our enemies, for human help is worthless.
Da nobis auxilium de tribulatione, quia vana salus hominis.
12 Our strength is in God, and he will crush our enemies.
In Deo faciemus virtutem; et ipse ad nihilum deducet tribulantes nos.
