Psalms 60
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.
1 #
2 Sam 5.20; Ps 44.9; 79.5; 80.3 O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses;
you have been angry; now restore us!
2 #
2 Chr 7.14; Ps 18.7 You have caused the land to quake; you have torn it open;
repair the cracks in it, for it is tottering.
3 #
Ps 71.20; Isa 51.17, 22 You have made your people suffer hard things;
you have given us wine to drink that made us reel.
4 #
Ps 20.5
You have set up a banner for those who fear you,
to rally to it out of bowshot.#60.4 Gk Syr Jerome: Heb because of the truth Selah
5 #
Ps 17.7; 108.6; 127.2 Give victory with your right hand and answer us,#60.5 Or me
so that those whom you love may be rescued.
6 #
Gn 12.6; Josh 1.6; Ps 89.35 God has promised in his sanctuary,#60.6 Or by his holiness
“With exultation I will divide up Shechem
and portion out the Vale of Succoth.
7 #
Gn 49.10; Deut 33.17; Josh 13.31 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim is my helmet;
Judah is my scepter.
8 #
2 Sam 8.1
Moab 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?
10 #
v 1
; Ps 44.9Have you not rejected us, O God?
You do not go out, O God, with our armies.
11 #
Ps 146.3
O grant us help against the foe,
for human help is worthless.
12 #
Num 24.18; Ps 44.5 With God we shall do valiantly;
it is he who will tread down our foes.
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