< Psalms 60 >
1 O God, you have cast us off, you have scattered us, you have been displeased; O turn yourself to us again.
For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, when he [had] burned 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 made the earth to tremble; you have broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shakes.
You have shaken the earth, and troubled it; heal its breaches, for it has been shaken.
3 You have showed your people hard things: you have made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
You have shown your people hard things: you has made us drink the wine of astonishment.
4 You have given a banner to them that fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. (Selah)
You have given a token to them that fear you, that they might flee from the bow. (Pause)
5 That your beloved may be delivered; save with your right hand, and hear me.
That your beloved ones may be delivered; save with your right hand, and hear me.
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 will rejoice, and divide Sicima, and measure out the valley of tents.
7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
Galaad is mine, and Manasse is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head;
8 Moab is my pot for washing; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph you because of me.
Judas is my king; Moab is the caldron 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 strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
Who will lead me into the fortified city? who will guide me as far a Idumea?
10 Will not you, O God, which had cast us off? and you, O God, which did not go out 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 help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the deliverance of man.
12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
In God will we do valiantly; and he shall bring to nothing them that harass us.