PSALM 60

¹For the lead player, on shushan-eduth, a David michtam, to teach, ²when he clashed with Aram Naharaim and Aram Zobah, and Joab came back and struck down twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

    ³God, You have abandoned us, breached us.

          You were incensed—restore us to life!

    ⁴You made the land quake, You cracked it.

          Heal its shards, for it has toppled.

    ⁵You sated Your people with harsh drink,

          You made us drink poison wine.

    ⁶You once gave to those who fear You

          a banner for rallying because of the truth.

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    ⁷So that Your friends be set free,

          rescue with Your right hand and answer us.

    ⁸God once spoke in His holiness:

          “Let Me exult and share out Shechem,

              and the valley of Succoth I shall measure.

    ⁹Mine is Gilead and Mine Manasseh,

          and Ephraim My foremost stronghold,

              Judah My scepter.

    ¹⁰Moab is My washbasin,

          upon Edom I fling My sandal,

              over Philistia I shout exultant.”

    ¹¹Who will lead me to the beseiged town,

          who will guide me to Edom?

    ¹²Have You not, O God, abandoned us?

          You do not sally forth, God, with our armies.

    ¹³Give us help against the foe

          when rescue by man is in vain.

    ¹⁴Through God we shall gather strength,

          and He will stamp out our foes.