60:1 *[For the director of music. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A miktam** of David. For teaching. When he fought Aram Naharaim^ and Aram Zobah,^^ and when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.] You have rejected us, God, and burst upon us; you have been angry - now restore us! / *In Hebrew texts 60:1-12 is numbered 60:3-14. / **Title: Probably a literary or musical term / ^Title: That is, Arameans of Northwest Mesopotamia / ^^Title: That is, Arameans of central Syria
60:2 You have shaken the land and torn it open; mend its fractures, for it is quaking.
60:3 You have shown your people desperate times; you have given us wine that makes us stagger.
60:4 But for those who fear you, you have raised a banner to be unfurled against the bow.* / *The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.
60:5 Save us and help us with your right hand, that those you love may be delivered.
60:6 God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph I will parcel out Shechem and measure off the Valley of Sukkoth.
60:7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet, Judah is my scepter.
60:8 Moab is my washbasin, on Edom I toss my sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”
60:9 Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
60:10 Is it not you, God, you who have now rejected us and no longer go out with our armies?
60:11 Give us aid against the enemy, for human help is worthless.
60:12 With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies.