Psalms 60 ASV
Summary: A communal lament following a military setback, Psalm 60 opens with unusually direct accusation, "O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses... you have made your people see hard things" (v. 1, 3), reflecting a national crisis tied in its heading to wars with Aram and Edom. It shifts to God's own oracle claiming Shechem, Gilead, and Moab (used here as a "washbasin") as his possessions (v. 6-8), reasserting sovereignty over disputed territory. It closes admitting human help is worthless and pleading for God's own aid, since "with God we shall do valiantly" (v. 11-12), verses reused in Psalm 108.
1For the Chief Musician; set to Shushan Eduth. Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand. O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again.
2Thou hast made the land to tremble; thou hast rent it: Heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
3Thou hast showed thy people hard things: Thou hast made us to drink the wine of staggering.
4Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, That it may be displayed because of the truth. [Selah
5That thy beloved may be delivered, Save with thy right hand, and answer us.
6God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult; I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my head; Judah is my sceptre.
8Moab is my washpot; Upon Edom will I cast my shoe: Philistia, shout thou because of me.
9Who will bring me into the strong city? Who hath led me unto Edom?
10Hast not thou, O God, cast us off? And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts.
11Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.
12Through God we shall do valiantly; For he it is that will tread down our adversaries.
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