< 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.
O God, you have cast us off, you have scattered us, you have been displeased; O turn yourself to us again.
2 You have caused the land to tremble, You have broken it, Heal its breaches, for it has moved.
You have made the earth to tremble; you have broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shakes.
3 You have shown Your people a hard thing, You have caused us to drink wine of trembling.
You have showed your people hard things: you have made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
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 banner to them that fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. (Selah)
5 That Your beloved ones may be drawn out, Save [with] Your right hand, and answer us.
That your beloved may be delivered; save 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 holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
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; Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver;
8 Moab [is] My pot for washing, Over Edom I cast My shoe, Shout, concerning Me, O Philistia.
Moab is my wash pot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph you because of me.
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?
Will not you, O God, which had cast us off? and you, O God, which did not 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 help of man.
12 We do mightily in God, And He treads down our adversaries!
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

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