Psalmorum 60
1 In finem, Pro his, qui immutabuntur, in tituli inscriptionem ipsi David in doctrinam, cum succendit Mesopotamiam Syriæ, et Sobal, et convertit Ioab, et percussit Idumæam in valle Salinarum duodecim millia. Deus repulisti nos, et destruxisti nos: iratus es, et misertus es nobis.
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 Commovisti terram, et conturbasti eam: sana contritiones eius, quia commota est.
You have shaken the land and cleft it; heal its tottering breaches.
3 Ostendisti populo tuo dura: potasti nos vino compunctionis.
You have made your people drink hardship, and given us wine of reeling.
4 Dedisti metuentibus te significationem: ut fugiant a facie arcus: Ut liberentur dilecti tui:
You have given those who fear you a banner, a rallying-place from the bow, (Selah)
5 salvum fac dextera tua, et exaudi me.
for the rescue of your beloved. Save by your right hand and answer us.
6 Deus locutus est in sancto suo: Lætabor, et partibor Sichimam: et convallem tabernaculorum metibor.
God did solemnly swear: ‘As victor will I divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
7 Meus est Galaad, et meus est Manasses: et Ephraim fortitudo capitis mei. Iuda rex meus:
Mine is Gilead, mine is Manasseh, Ephraim is the defence of my head, Judah my sceptre of rule,
8 Moab olla spei meæ. In Idumæam extendam calceamentum meum: mihi alienigenæ subditi sunt.
Moab the pot that I wash in, Edom – I cast my shoe over it, I shout o’er Philistia in triumph.’
9 Quis deducet me in civitatem munitam? quis deducet me usque in Idumæam?
O to be brought to the fortified city! O to be led into Edom!
10 Nonne tu Deus, qui repulisti nos: et non egredieris Deus in virtutibus nostris?
Have you not spurned us, O God? You do not march forth with our armies.
11 Da nobis auxilium de tribulatione: quia vana salus hominis.
Grant us help from the foe, for human help is worthless.
12 In Deo faciemus virtutem: et ipse ad nihilum deducet tribulantes nos.
With God we shall yet do bravely: he himself will tread down our foes.
