Psalms 60

1 For the chief musician; set to Shushan Eduth. A michtam of David, for teaching. When he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned and killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. God, you have cast us off; you have broken through our defenses; you have been angry; restore us again.

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 made the land tremble; you have torn it apart; heal its fissures, for it is shaking.

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

3 You have made your people see difficult things; you have made us drink the wine of staggering.

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

4 For those who honor you, you have set up a banner to be displayed against those who carry the bow. (Selah)

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

5 So that those you love may be rescued, rescue us with your right hand and answer me.

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

6 God has spoken in his holiness, “I will rejoice; I will divide Shechem and apportion 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 my helmet; Judah is my scepter.

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

8 Moab is my washbasin; over Edom I will throw my shoe; I will shout in triumph because of 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 will bring me into the strong city? Who will lead me to Edom?

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

10 But you, God, have you not rejected us? You do not go into battle with our army.

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 enemy, for man's help is futile.

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

12 We will triumph with God's help; he will trample down our enemies.

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