Psalms 60

1 For the Chief Musician; set to Shushan Eduth: Michtam of David, to teach: when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; thou hast been angry; O restore us again.

For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, when he [had] burnt 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 Thou hast made the land to tremble; thou hast rent it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

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

3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of staggering.

You have shown your people hard things: you has made us drink the wine of astonishment.

4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. (Selah)

You have given a token to them that fear you, that they might flee from the bow. (Pause)

5 That thy beloved may be delivered, save with thy right hand, and answer us.

That your beloved ones may be delivered; save with your right hand, and hear me.

6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will exult: I will divide Shechem, and mete out 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; Ephraim also is the defence of mine head; Judah is my sceptre.

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

8 Moab is my washpot; upon Edom will I cast my shoe: Philistia, shout thou because of me.

Judas is my king; Moab is the cauldron of my hope; over Idumea will I stretch out my shoe; the Philistines have been subjected to me.

9 Who will bring me into the strong city? who hath led me unto Edom?

Who will lead me into the fortified city? who will guide me as far a Idumea?

10 Hast not thou, O God, cast us off? and thou goest not 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 us help against the adversary: for vain is the help of man.

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

12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our adversaries.

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