< 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 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 shaken the earth, and troubled it; heal its breaches, for it has been shaken.
You have caused the land to tremble, You have broken it, Heal its breaches, for it has moved.
3 You have shown your people hard things: you has made us 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 token to them that fear you, that they might flee from the bow. (Pause)
You have given an ensign to those fearing You, To be lifted up as an ensign Because of truth. (Selah)
5 That your beloved ones 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, and divide Sicima, and measure out the valley of tents.
God has spoken in His holiness: I exult—I apportion Shechem, And I measure 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, And Ephraim [is] the strength of My 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 pot for washing, Over Edom I cast My shoe, Shout, concerning Me, O Philistia.
9 Who will lead me into the fortified city? who will guide me as far a Idumea?
Who brings me [to] a city of bulwarks? Who has led me to Edom?
10 Will not you, O God, who have cast us off? and will not you, O God, go forth with our forces?
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 deliverance of man.
Give to us help from adversity, And the deliverance of man [is] vain.
12 In God will we do valiantly; and he shall bring to nothing them that harass us.
We do mightily in God, And He treads down our adversaries!

< Psalms 60 >