Psalms 60
1 `In Ebreu thus, To victorie, on the witnessyng of roose, the swete song of Dauid, to teche, `whanne he fauyte ayens Aram of floodis, and Sirie of Soba; and Joab turnede ayen, and smoot Edom in the `valei of salt pittis, twelue thousynde. `In Jeroms translacioun thus, To the ouercomer for lilies, the witnessing of meke and parfit Dauid, to teche, whanne he fauyte ayens Sirie of Mesopotamye, and Soba, and so forth. God, thou hast put awei vs, and thou hast distried vs; thou were wrooth, and thou hast do merci to vs.
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.
2 Thou mouedist the erthe, and thou disturblidist it; make thou hool the sorewis therof, for it is moued.
You have caused the land to tremble, You have broken it, Heal its breaches, for it has moved.
3 Thou schewidist harde thingis to thi puple; thou yauest drynk to vs with the wyn of compunccioun.
You have shown Your people a hard thing, You have caused us to drink wine of trembling.
4 Thou hast youe a signefiyng to hem that dreden thee; that thei fle fro the face of the bouwe. That thi derlyngis be delyuered;
You have given an ensign to those fearing You, To be lifted up as an ensign Because of truth. (Selah)
5 make thou saaf with thi riyt hond `the puple of Israel, and here thou me.
That Your beloved ones may be drawn out, Save [with] Your right hand, and answer us.
6 God spak bi his hooli; Y schal be glad, and Y schal departe Siccimam, and Y schal meete the greet valei of tabernaclis.
God has spoken in His holiness: I exult—I apportion Shechem, And I measure the Valley of Succoth,
7 Galaad is myn, and Manasses is myn; and Effraym is the strengthe of myn heed.
Gilead [is] Mine, and Manasseh [is] Mine, And Ephraim [is] the strength of My head, Judah [is] My lawgiver,
8 Juda is my king; Moab is the pot of myn hope. In to Idumee Y schal stretche forth my scho; aliens ben maad suget to me.
Moab [is] My pot for washing, Over Edom I cast My shoe, Shout, concerning Me, O Philistia.
9 Who schal lede me in to a citee maad strong; who schal leede me til in to Ydumee?
Who brings me [to] a city of bulwarks? Who has led me to Edom?
10 Whether not thou, God, that hast put awei vs; and schalt thou not, God, go out in oure vertues?
Is it not You, O God? Have You cast us off? And do You not go forth, O God, with our hosts?
11 Lord, yyue thou to vs help of tribulacioun; for the heelthe of man is veyn.
Give to us help from adversity, And the deliverance of man [is] vain.
12 In God we schulen make vertu; and he schal bringe to nouyt hem that disturblen vs.
We do mightily in God, And He treads down our adversaries!
