Psalms 60 - Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952(RSV-C)

To the choirmaster: according to Shushan Eduth. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

1O God, thou hast rejected us, broken our defenses;

thou hast been angry; oh, restore us.

2Thou hast made the land to quake, thou hast rent it open;

repair its breaches, for it totters.

3Thou hast made thy people suffer hard things;

thou hast given us wine to drink that made us reel.

4Thou hast set up a banner for those who fear thee,

to rally to it from the bow. Selah

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“With exultation I will divide up Shechem

and portion out the Vale of Succoth.

7Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;

Ephraim is my helmet;

Judah is my scepter.

8Moab is my washbasin;

upon Edom I cast my shoe;

over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

9Who will bring me to the fortified city?

Who will lead me to Edom?

10Hast thou not rejected us, O God?

Thou dost not go forth, O God, with our armies.

11O grant us help against the foe,

for vain is the help of man!

12With God we shall do valiantly;

it is he who will tread down our foes.