Psalms 60

For the choirmaster: according to “Lily of Testimony.” A miktam of David, for teaching when he fought against Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

1God, you have rejected us; you have breached us; you have been angry. Restore us.

2You have shaken the earth; you have split it open. Heal its fractures, for it is tottering.

3You have shown your people hard things; you have made us drink wine of staggering.

4You have given a banner to those who fear you, to be raised up because of the truth. Selah

5So that your beloved ones may be delivered, save with your right hand and answer us.

6God has spoken in his holiness: “I will exult; I will divide up Shechem, and measure out the Valley of Succoth.”

7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is the defense of my head; Judah is my scepter.

8Moab is my washbasin; on Edom I cast my sandal; over me, O Philistia, shout in triumph!

9Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me as far as Edom?

10Have you not rejected us, O God? You do not go out with our armies, O God.

11Give us help from distress, for human deliverance is futile.

12With God we will do valiantly, and he will trample our adversaries.