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.

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.

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

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

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

You have shown your people hard things: you has made us 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 token to them that fear you, that they might flee from the bow. (Pause)

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

That your beloved ones 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, and divide Sicima, and measure out the valley of tents.

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

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

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

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.

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 guide me as far a 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 have cast us off? and will not you, O God, go forth with our forces?

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

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

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

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