Psalm 60 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

¹ To the overseer upon the lily of song: poem to David to teach; In the setting on fire Aram of the two rivers, and Aram of the station; and Joab will turn back and strike Edom in the valley of salt, twelve thousand. O God, thou didst cast us off, thou didst break us down, thou wert angry; wilt thou turn back to us?

² Thou didst shake the earth; thou didst rend it: heal its breakings, for it is depressed.

³ Thou didst cause thy people to see a hard thing: thou didst give us to drink the wine of reeling.

⁴ Thou gavest a signal to those fearing thee, to flee from the face of the bow. Silence.

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

⁶ God spake in his holy place; I will rejoice, I will divide the shoulder, and I will measure the valley of booths.

⁷ Gilead to me, and Manasseh to me; and Ephraim the strength of my head; Judah my judge.

⁸ Moab the pot of my washing; over Edom I will cast out my shoe: for me, Philistia shouted for joy.

⁹ Who will bring me to the city of fortification? who guided me even to Edom?

¹⁰ Wilt not thou, O God? thou didst cast us off, and wilt thou not go forth, O God, with our armies?

¹¹ Give to us help from straits, for vain the salvation of man.

¹² In God we will do strength and he will tread down our adversaries.