Psalm 60

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.

¹O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses;

you have been angry; now restore us!^*

²You have caused the land to quake; you have torn it open;

repair the cracks in it, for it is tottering.^*

³You have made your people suffer hard things;

you have given us wine to drink that made us reel.^*

⁴You have set up a banner for those who fear you,

to rally to it out of bowshot.^t   Selah^*

⁵Give victory with your right hand and answer us,^u

so that those whom you love may be rescued.^*

⁶God has promised in his sanctuary,^v

“With exultation I will divide up Shechem

and portion out the Vale of Succoth.^*

⁷Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine;

Ephraim is my helmet;

Judah is my scepter.^*

⁸Moab is my washbasin;

on Edom I hurl my shoe;

over Philistia I shout in triumph.”^*

⁹Who will bring me to the fortified city?

Who will lead me to Edom?

¹⁰Have you not rejected us, O God?

You do not go out, O God, with our armies.^*

¹¹O grant us help against the foe,

for human help is worthless.^*

¹²With God we shall do valiantly;

it is he who will tread down our foes.^*