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.

Nkulunkulu, ubusilahlile, wasibhidliza, wathukuthela; buyela kithi.

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

Uzamazamisile umhlaba, wawuqhekeza; silisa imikenke yawo, ngoba uyazamazama.

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

Abantu bakho ubabonisile okulukhuni; usinathise iwayini lokudiyazela.

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

Ubanikile labo abakwesabayo isiboniso, ukuze siphakanyiswe ngenxa yeqiniso. (Sela)

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

Ukuze abathandekayo bakho bakhululwe; sindisa ngesandla sakho sokunene, usiphendule.

6 God has spoken in His holiness: I exult—I apportion Shechem, And I measure the Valley of Succoth,

UNkulunkulu ukhulumile ebungcweleni bakhe. Ngizathaba, ngilabe iShekema, ngilinganise isihotsha seSukothi.

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

Ngeyami iGileyadi, njalo ngowami uManase, loEfrayimi ungamandla ekhanda lami, uJuda ngumnikumthetho wami.

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

UMowabi ungumganu wami wokugezela; phezu kukaEdoma ngizaphosela inyathela lami; mayelana lami, wena Filisti, memeza ngokunqoba.

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

Ngubani ozangisa emzini oqinileyo? Ngubani ozangiholela eEdoma?

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

Kawusilahlanga yini, Nkulunkulu; kawuphumanga, Nkulunkulu, lamabutho ethu?

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

Siphe usizo ekuhlupheni, ngoba luyize uncedo lomuntu.

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

KuNkulunkulu sizakwenza ngobuqhawe, ngoba yena uzanyathelela phansi izitha zethu.