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.
For the leader. On shushan eduth. A michtam of David (for teaching), when he fought with Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and defeated twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. O God, you have spurned and broken us, routing us in your wrath – restore us!
2 Thou mouedist the erthe, and thou disturblidist it; make thou hool the sorewis therof, for it is moued.
You have shaken the land and cleft it; heal its tottering breaches.
3 Thou schewidist harde thingis to thi puple; thou yauest drynk to vs with the wyn of compunccioun.
You have made your people drink hardship, and given us wine of reeling.
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 those who fear you a banner, a rallying-place from the bow, (Selah)
5 make thou saaf with thi riyt hond `the puple of Israel, and here thou me.
for the rescue of your beloved. Save by 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 did solemnly swear: “As victor will I divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
7 Galaad is myn, and Manasses is myn; and Effraym is the strengthe of myn heed.
Mine is Gilead, mine is Manasseh, Ephraim is the defence of my head, Judah my sceptre of rule,
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 the pot that I wash in, Edom – I cast my shoe over it, I shout o’er Philistia in triumph.”
9 Who schal lede me in to a citee maad strong; who schal leede me til in to Ydumee?
O to be brought to the fortified city! O to be led into Edom!
10 Whether not thou, God, that hast put awei vs; and schalt thou not, God, go out in oure vertues?
Have you not spurned us, O God? You do not march forth with our armies.
11 Lord, yyue thou to vs help of tribulacioun; for the heelthe of man is veyn.
Grant us help from the foe, for human help is worthless.
12 In God we schulen make vertu; and he schal bringe to nouyt hem that disturblen vs.
With God we shall yet do bravely: he himself will tread down our foes.
