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 leader of the music; upon the Shushan-Eduth; a psalm of David for instruction; when he was at strife with the Syrians of Mesopotamia, and the Syrians of Zoba; when Joab returned, and smote twelve thousand Edomites in the valley of Salt.” O God! thou hast forsaken us; thou hast broken us in pieces; Thou hast been angry! O revive us again!
2 You have caused the land to tremble, You have broken it, Heal its breaches, for it has moved.
Thou hast made the land tremble; thou hast rent it; O heal its breaches, for it tottereth!
3 You have shown Your people a hard thing, You have caused us to drink wine of trembling.
Thou hast caused thy people to see hard things; Thou hast made us drink the wine of reeling.
4 You have given an ensign to those fearing You, To be lifted up as an ensign Because of truth. (Selah)
Lift up a banner for them that fear thee, For the sake of thy faithfulness, that they may escape!
5 That Your beloved ones may be drawn out, Save [with] Your right hand, and answer us.
That thy beloved may be delivered, Save with thy right hand, and answer me!
6 God has spoken in His holiness: I exult—I apportion Shechem, And I measure the Valley of Succoth,
God promiseth in his holiness; I will rejoice; I shall yet divide Shechem, And measure 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 shall be mine, and mine Manasseh; Ephraim shall be my helmet, And Judah my sceptre;
8 Moab [is] My pot for washing, Over Edom I cast My shoe, Shout, concerning Me, O Philistia.
Moab shall be my wash-bowl; Upon Edom shall I cast my shoe; I shall triumph over Philistia!
9 Who brings me [to] a city of bulwarks? Who has led me to Edom?
Who will bring me to 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 didst forsake us, And didst not go forth with our armies?
11 Give to us help from adversity, And the deliverance of man [is] vain.
Give us thine aid in our distress, 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 will tread down our enemies.
