Psalm 60 - Modern English Version

For the Music Director. A Miktam of David to teach. To the melody of “Lily of the Testimony,” when he struggled with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah and when Joab returned from striking down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

¹ O God, You have rejected us; You have broken our defenses; You have been displeased; oh, restore us.

² You have made the earth tremble; You have split it open; heal its breaches, for it is shaking.

³ You have shown Your people hardship; You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger.

⁴ You have given a banner to those who fear You, that they may flee to it from the bow.    Selah

⁵ That Your beloved may be delivered, save with Your right hand and answer us!

⁶ God has spoken in His holiness: “With exultation will I divide Shechem, and measure out the Valley of Sukkoth.

⁷ Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim also is My helmet; Judah is My scepter;

⁸ Moab is My wash basin; upon Edom will I cast My shoe; Philistia, shout in triumph because of Me.”

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

¹⁰ Have You not rejected us, O God? And will You not go forth with our armies, O God?

¹¹ O grant us help against the adversary, for vain is the help of man.

¹² With God we shall do valiantly, for it is He who will tread down our enemies.