< 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.
To the Chief Musician. Upon "The Lily of Testimony." A precious Psalm of David, to instruct. When he waged war with Aram-neharaim, and with Aram-zobah, —and then Joab returned and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt, twelve thousand. O God, thou hast rejected us—hast scattered us, Thou hast been angry, Wilt thou restore us?
2 You have caused the land to tremble, You have broken it, Heal its breaches, for it has moved.
Thou hast shaken the land—hast rent it, Heal thou the fractures thereof—for it hath tottered:
3 You have shown Your people a hard thing, You have caused us to drink wine of trembling.
Thou hast suffered thy people to see hardship, Thou hast let them drink the wine of confusion.
4 You have given an ensign to those fearing You, To be lifted up as an ensign Because of truth. (Selah)
Thou hadst given—to them that revere thee—a banner, to float aloft, Because of [thy] faithfulness. (Selah)
5 That Your beloved ones may be drawn out, Save [with] Your right hand, and answer us.
That thy beloved ones may be delivered, Save thou with thine own right hand—and answer us.
6 God has spoken in His holiness: I exult—I apportion Shechem, And I measure the Valley of Succoth,
God, hath spoken in his holiness—I will exult! I will apportion Shechem, And, the Vale of Succoth, will I measure out;
7 Gilead [is] Mine, and Manasseh [is] Mine, And Ephraim [is] the strength of My head, Judah [is] My lawgiver,
Mine, is Gilead—and mine, Manasseh, But, Ephraim, is the defence, of my head, Judah, is my commander’s staff;
8 Moab [is] My pot for washing, Over Edom I cast My shoe, Shout, concerning Me, O Philistia.
Moab, is my wash-bowl, Upon Edom, will I throw my shoe, Over Philistia! raise shout of triumph.
9 Who brings me [to] a city of bulwarks? Who has led me to Edom?
Who will conduct me to a fortified city? Who will lead me as far as Edom!
10 Is it not You, O God? Have You cast us off? And do You not go forth, O God, with our hosts?
Is it not, thou, O God?—thou hast rejected us! And wilt thou not go forth, O God, with our hosts?
11 Give to us help from adversity, And the deliverance of man [is] vain.
Grant us help out of distress, For, vain, is the deliverance of man:
12 We do mightily in God, And He treads down our adversaries!
In God, we shall do valiantly, He himself, therefore, will tread down our adversaries.

< Psalms 60 >