Psalms 60

1 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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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