Psalm 60
Prayer for National Victory after Defeat
To the leader: according to the Lily of the Covenant. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
1 O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses;
you have been angry; now restore us!(A)
2 You have caused the land to quake; you have torn it open;
repair the cracks in it, for it is tottering.(B)
3 You have made your people suffer hard things;
you have given us wine to drink that made us reel.(C)
4 You have set up a banner for those who fear you,
to rally to it out of bowshot.Selah(D)
5 Give victory with your right hand and answer us,
so that those whom you love may be rescued.(E)
6 God has promised in his sanctuary,
“With exultation I will divide up Shechem
and portion out the Vale of Succoth.(F)
7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim is my helmet;
Judah is my scepter.(G)
8 Moab is my washbasin;
on Edom I hurl my shoe;
over Philistia I shout in triumph.”(H)
9 Who will bring me to the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
10 Have you not rejected us, O God?
You do not go out, O God, with our armies.(I)
11 O grant us help against the foe,
for human help is worthless.(J)
12 With God we shall do valiantly;
it is he who will tread down our foes.(K)
Footnotes
- 60.4
- 60.5
- 60.6
Cross references
- 60.1 : 2 Sam 5.20; Ps 44.9; 79.5; 80.3
- 60.2 : 2 Chr 7.14; Ps 18.7
- 60.3 : Ps 71.20; Isa 51.17, 22
- 60.4 : Ps 20.5
- 60.5 : Ps 17.7; 108.6; 127.2
- 60.6 : Gen 12.6; Josh 1.6; Ps 89.35
- 60.7 : Gen 49.10; Deut 33.17; Josh 13.31
- 60.8 : 2 Sam 8.1
- 60.10 : v 1; Ps 44.9
- 60.11 : Ps 146.3
- 60.12 : Num 24.18; Ps 44.5
