Psalmorum 60
1 in finem his qui inmutabuntur in tituli inscriptione David in doctrina cum succendit Syriam Mesopotamiam et Syriam Soba et convertit Ioab et percussit vallem Salinarum duodecim milia Deus reppulisti 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 turbasti 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 conpunctionis
You have made your people drink hardship, and given us wine of reeling.
4 dedisti metuentibus te significationem ut fugiant a facie arcus diapsalma 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 laetabor et partibor Sicima 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 Effraim 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 meae in Idumeam extendam calciamentum meum mihi alienigenae 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 Idumeam
O to be brought to the fortified city! O to be led into Edom!
10 nonne tu Deus qui reppulisti 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 et 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.
