Psalmorum 60

1 In finem, pro his qui immutabuntur, in tituli inscriptionem ipsi David, in doctrinam, cum succendit Mesopotamiam Syriæ et Sobal, et convertit Joab, et percussit Idumæam in valle Salinarum duodecim millia. [Deus, repulisti nos, et destruxisti nos; iratus es, et misertus es nobis.

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 Commovisti terram, et conturbasti eam; sana contritiones ejus, quia commota est.

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

3 Ostendisti populo tuo dura; potasti nos vino compunctionis.

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

4 Dedisti metuentibus te significationem, ut fugiant a facie arcus; ut liberentur dilecti tui.

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

5 Salvum fac dextera tua, et exaudi me.

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

6 Deus locutus est in sancto suo: lætabor, et partibor Sichimam; et convallem tabernaculorum metibor.

God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, and divide Sicima, and measure out the valley of tents.

7 Meus est Galaad, et meus est Manasses; et Ephraim fortitudo capitis mei. Juda rex meus;

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

8 Moab olla spei meæ. In Idumæam extendam calceamentum meum: mihi alienigenæ subditi sunt.

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 Quis deducet me in civitatem munitam? quis deducet me usque in Idumæam?

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

10 nonne tu, Deus, qui repulisti nos? et non egredieris, Deus, in virtutibus nostris?

Will not you, O God, who have cast us off? and will not you, O God, go forth with our forces?

11 Da nobis auxilium de tribulatione, quia vana salus hominis.

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

12 In Deo faciemus virtutem; et ipse ad nihilum deducet tribulantes nos.]

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