Psalm 59–60

Psalm 59

For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.

¹Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God:

Set me on high from them that rise up against me.

²Deliver me from the workers of iniquity,

And save me from the bloodthirsty men.

³For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul;

The mighty gather themselves together against me:

Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.

⁴They run and prepare themselves without my fault:

Awake thou to help me, and behold.

⁵Even thou, O Jehovah God of hosts, the God of Israel,

Arise to visit all the nations:

Be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah

⁶They return at evening, they howl like a dog,

And go round about the city.

⁷Behold, they belch out with their mouth;

Swords are in their lips:

For who, say they, doth hear?

⁸But thou, O Jehovah, wilt laugh at them;

Thou wilt have all the nations in derision.

⁹Because of his strength I will give heed unto thee;

For God is my high tower.

¹⁰My God with his lovingkindness will meet me:

God will let me see my desire upon mine enemies.

¹¹Slay them not, lest my people forget:

Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down,

O Lord our shield.

¹²For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips,

Let them even be taken in their pride,

And for cursing and lying which they speak.

¹³Consume them in wrath, consume them, so that they shall be no more:

And let them know that God ruleth in Jacob,

Unto the ends of the earth. Selah

¹⁴And at evening let them return, let them howl like a dog,

And go round about the city.

¹⁵They shall wander up and down for food,

And tarry all night if they be not satisfied.

¹⁶But I will sing of thy strength;

Yea, I will sing aloud of thy lovingkindness in the morning:

For thou hast been my high tower,

And a refuge in the day of my distress.

¹⁷Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing praises:

For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.

Psalm 60

For the Chief Musician; set to Shushan Eduth. Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand.

¹O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down;

Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again.

²Thou hast made the land to tremble; thou hast rent it:

Heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

³Thou hast showed thy people hard things:

Thou hast made us to drink the wine of staggering.

⁴Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee,

That it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah

⁵That thy beloved may be delivered,

Save with thy right hand, and answer us.

⁶God hath spoken in his holiness:

I will exult;

I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

⁷Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine;

Ephraim also is the defence of my head;

Judah is my sceptre.

⁸Moab is my washpot;

Upon Edom will I cast my shoe:

Philistia, shout thou because of me.

⁹Who will bring me into the strong city?

Who hath led me unto Edom?

¹⁰Hast not thou, O God, cast us off?

And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts.

¹¹Give us help against the adversary;

For vain is the help of man.

¹²Through God we shall do valiantly;

For he it is that will tread down our adversaries.