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.

To the chief Musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

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

Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

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

Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

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

Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. (Selah)

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

That thy beloved may be delivered; save [with] thy right hand, and hear me.

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

God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

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

Gilead [is] mine, and Manasseh [is] mine; Ephraim also [is] the strength of mine head; Judah [is] my lawgiver;

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.

Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.

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

Who will bring me [into] the strong 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?

[Wilt] not thou, O God, [which] hadst cast us off? and [thou], O God, [which] didst not go out with our armies?

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

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

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

Through God we shall do valiantly: for he [it is that] shall tread down our enemies.