Psalm 60 (59)
Petition after a defeat.
3 O God, you have rejected us and have broken our defenses; you have been angry, but now turn back to us.
4 You have shaken the land and torn it open; mend its cracks for it tot ters.
5 You have made your people suffer; you have given us wine that makes us stagger.
6 You set the banner behind us and your people fled from bow and arrow.
7 Help us and listen to us, that your beloved may be rescued.
8 God has spoken in his sanctuary: “In triumph I will divide up Shechem and parcel out the Valley of Succoth.
9 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet, Judah my scepter.
10 Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my sandal; over Philis tia I shout in triumph.”
11 Who will take me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
12 Have you not rejected us, O God? You no longer go with our ar mies.
13 Give us aid against the foe, for human help is not worth a straw.
14 With God we will gain victory; he will crush the enemy for us.