Psalms 60

1 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.

Unto the end. For those who will be changed, with the inscription of a title, of David himself, for instruction: when he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal, and Joab turned back and struck Idumea, in the valley of the salt pits, twelve thousand men. O God, you have rejected us, and you have ruined us. You became angry, and yet you have been merciful to us.

2 You have caused the land to tremble, You have broken it, Heal its breaches, for it has moved.

You have moved the earth, and you have disturbed it. Heal its breaches, for it has been moved.

3 You have shown Your people a hard thing, You have caused us to drink wine of trembling.

You have revealed to your people difficulties. You have made us drink the wine of remorse.

4 You have given an ensign to those fearing You, To be lifted up as an ensign Because of truth. (Selah)

You have given a warning sign to those who fear you, so that they may flee from before the face of the bow, so that your beloved may be delivered.

5 That Your beloved ones may be drawn out, Save [with] Your right hand, and answer us.

Save me with your right hand, and hear me.

6 God has spoken in His holiness: I exult—I apportion Shechem, And I measure the Valley of Succoth,

God has spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will divide Shechem, and I will measure the steep valley of the tabernacles.

7 Gilead [is] Mine, and Manasseh [is] Mine, And Ephraim [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 king.

8 Moab [is] My pot for washing, Over Edom I cast My shoe, Shout, concerning Me, O Philistia.

Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. Into Idumea, I will extend my shoe. To me, the foreigners have been made subject.

9 Who brings me [to] a city of bulwarks? Who has led me to Edom?

Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will lead me all the way to Idumea?

10 Is it not You, O God? Have You cast us off? And do You not go forth, O God, with our hosts?

Will not you, O God, who has rejected us? And will not you, O God, go out with our armies?

11 Give to us help from adversity, And the deliverance of man [is] vain.

Grant us help from tribulation. For salvation from man is empty.

12 We do mightily in God, And He treads down our adversaries!

In God, we will act virtuously. And those who trouble us, he will lead to nothing.