Psalm 60

For the choir director. To the tune of “The Lily of the Testimony.” A miktam of David, for teaching, when he fought against Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

1God, you have rejected us and broken through our defenses; you have been angry. Restore us!

2You have made the land quake; you have split it open. Heal its fractures, for it is tottering.

3You have made your people see hard things; you have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger.

4You have given a banner to those who fear you, to be raised because of the truth. Selah.

5So that those you love may be rescued, save with your right hand and answer me.

6God has spoken in his holiness: “I will triumph; I will divide up Shechem and measure out the Valley of Succoth.

7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is the helmet on my head, Judah is my scepter.

8Moab is my washbasin; on Edom I throw my sandal; shout in triumph over me, Philistia!”

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

10Is it not you, God, who have rejected us, you, God, who do not go out with our armies?

11Give us help against the foe, for deliverance by human beings is worthless.

12With God we will do valiantly, and he will trample down our foes.