Psalm 60

Psalm 60

He Will Tread Down Our Foes

To the choirmaster: according to Shushan Eduth. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return struck down twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

1

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

    you have been angry; oh, restore us.

2 

You have made the land to quake; you have torn it open;

    repair its breaches, for it totters.

3 

You have made your people see hard things;

    you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger.

4 

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

    that they may flee to it from the bow. Selah

5 

That your beloved ones may be delivered,

    give salvation by your right hand and answer us!

6 

God has spoken in his holiness:

    “With exultation I will divide up Shechem

    and portion out the Vale of Succoth.

7 

Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;

    Ephraim is my helmet;

    Judah is my scepter.

8 

Moab is my washbasin;

    upon Edom I cast my shoe;

    over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

9 

Who will bring me to the fortified city?

    Who will lead me to Edom?

10 

Have you not rejected us, O God?

    You do not go forth, O God, with our armies.

11 

Oh, grant us help against the foe,

    for vain is the salvation of man!

12 

With God we shall do valiantly;

    it is he who will tread down our foes.