Psalms 60 KJV
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.
1O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
2Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
3Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
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 hear me.
6God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
8Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
9Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
10Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
11Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
12Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
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