< Psalms 60 >
1 O God, you have cast us off, you have scattered us, you have been displeased; O turn yourself to us again.
TO THE OVERSEER. [SET] ON “LILY OF TESTIMONY.” A MIKTAM OF DAVID, TO TEACH, IN HIS STRIVING WITH ARAM-NAHARAIM AND WITH ARAM-ZOBAH, WHEN JOAB TURNS BACK AND STRIKES EDOM IN THE VALLEY OF SALT—TWELVE THOUSAND. O God, You had cast us off, You had broken us—had been angry! You turn back to us.
2 You have made the earth to tremble; you have broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shakes.
You have caused the land to tremble, You have broken it, Heal its breaches, for it has moved.
3 You have showed your people hard things: you have made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
You have shown Your people a hard thing, You have caused us to drink wine of trembling.
4 You have given a banner to them that fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. (Selah)
You have given an ensign to those fearing You, To be lifted up as an ensign Because of truth. (Selah)
5 That your beloved may be delivered; save with your right hand, and hear me.
That Your beloved ones may be drawn out, Save [with] Your right hand, and answer us.
6 God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
God has spoken in His holiness: I exult—I apportion Shechem, And I measure the Valley of Succoth,
7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver;
Gilead [is] Mine, and Manasseh [is] Mine, And Ephraim [is] the strength of My head, Judah [is] My lawgiver,
8 Moab is my wash pot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph you because of me.
Moab [is] My pot for washing, Over Edom I cast My shoe, Shout, concerning Me, O Philistia.
9 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
Who brings me [to] a city of bulwarks? Who has led me to Edom?
10 Will not you, O God, which had cast us off? and you, O God, which did not go out with our armies?
Is it not You, O God? Have You cast us off? And do You not go forth, O God, with our hosts?
11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Give to us help from adversity, And the deliverance of man [is] vain.
12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
We do mightily in God, And He treads down our adversaries!