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 them that shall be changed, for the inscription of a title, to David himself, for doctrine, When he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal and Joab returned and slew of Edom, in the vale of the saltpits, twelve thousand men. O God, thou hast cast us off, and hast destroyed us; thou hast been angry, and hast had mercy on us.

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

Thou hast moved the earth, and hast troubled it: heal thou the breaches thereof, for it has been moved.

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

Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us drink wine of sorrow.

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

Thou hast given a warning to them that fear thee: that they may flee from before the bow: That thy beloved may be delivered.

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

Save me with thy 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 hath spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem; and will mete out the vale of tabernacles.

7 Gilead [is] Mine, and Manasseh [is] Mine, And Ephraim [is] the strength of My head, Judah [is] My lawgiver,

Galaad is mine, and Manasses is mine: and Ephraim is the strength of my head. Juda is my king:

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

Moab is the pot of my hope. Into Edom will I stretch out my shoe: to me the foreigners are made subject.

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

Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

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

Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go out with our armies?

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

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

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

Through God we shall do mightily: and he shall bring to nothing them that afflict us.