Psalmien 60
1 Veisuunjohtajalle; veisataan kuin: "Todistuksen lilja"; Daavidin laulu, opetettavaksi, kun hän taisteli Mesopotamian aramilaisia ja Sooban aramilaisia vastaan ja Jooab palasi ja voitti Suolalaaksossa edomilaiset, kaksitoista tuhatta miestä. Jumala, sinä hylkäsit meidät, sinä hajotit meidät ja olit vihastunut. Auta meidät ennallemme.
[I prayed], “God, you have rejected us [Israelis]! Because you have been angry [with us], you have [enabled our enemies] to break through our ranks. [Please] enable us to be strong again!
2 Sinä saatoit maan järkkymään ja halkeilemaan, korjaa sen repeämät, sillä se horjuu.
[When we were defeated, it was as though] [MET] there was a big earthquake in our land that caused the ground to split open. So now, [just as only you can] cause the cracks in the land to disappear, [help our army to be strong again], because [it is as though] our country is (falling apart/being destroyed).
3 Sinä olet antanut kansasi nähdä kovia päiviä; olet juottanut meitä päihdyttävällä viinillä.
You have caused [us], your people, to suffer very much; [it is as though] you forced us to drink [strong] wine that caused us to stagger around [after we became drunk].
4 Mutta sinä olet antanut lipun niille, jotka sinua pelkäävät, että he kokoontuisivat sen turviin, jousta pakoon. (Sela)
But you have raised a battle flag for those who revere you in order that they can gather around it and not [be killed by the enemies’] arrows.
5 Että sinun rakkaasi pelastetuiksi tulisivat, auta oikealla kädelläsi ja vastaa meille.
Answer our [prayers] and enable us by your power [MTY] to defeat [our enemies] in order that we, the people whom you love, will be saved.”
6 Jumala on puhunut pyhäkössänsä! Minä riemuitsen, minä jaan Sikemin ja mittaan Sukkotin laakson.
[Then] God [answered my prayer and] spoke from his temple, saying, “Because I have conquered [your enemies], I will divide up [everything in] Shechem [city], and I will distribute it among my people [the land in] Succoth Valley.
7 Minun on Gilead, minun on Manasse, Efraim on minun pääni suojus, Juuda minun valtikkani.
The Gilead [region] is mine; the [people of the tribe of] Manasseh are mine; [the tribe of] Ephraim is [like] my helmet [MET]; and [the tribe of] Judah is [like] the (scepter/stick [that I hold which shows that I am the ruler]) [MET];
8 Mooab on minun pesuastiani, Edomiin minä viskaan kenkäni; Filistea, nosta minulle riemuhuuto.
but the Moab [region] is [like] my washbasin [MET]; I throw my sandal in the Edom [area to show that it belongs to me]; I shout triumphantly because I have defeated [the people of] the Philistia [area].”
9 Kuka vie minut varustettuun kaupunkiin? Kuka saattaa minut Edomiin?
[Because I want to defeat the people of] Edom, (who will lead my [army triumphantly] to their [capital] city that has strong walls around it?/I want someone to lead my [army triumphantly] to their [capital] city that has strong walls around it.)” [RHQ]
10 Etkö sinä, Jumala, hyljännyt meitä? Et lähtenyt, Jumala, meidän sotajoukkojemme kanssa!
So, God, we [desire/hope that] [RHQ] you have not truly abandoned us, and that you will go with us when our armies march out [to fight our enemies].
11 Anna meille apu ahdistajaa vastaan, sillä turha on ihmisten apu.
[We need you to] help us when we fight against our enemies, because the help that humans can give us is worthless.
12 Jumalan voimalla me teemme väkeviä tekoja; hän tallaa meidän vihollisemme maahan.
But with you [helping us], we shall win; you will enable us to defeat our enemies.
