60: 1 Lament over Defeat in Battle, and Prayer for Help. For the Chief Musician; set to ³⁴⁷ Shushan Eduth. Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote 12,000 of Edom in the Valley of Salt. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again.
³⁴⁷That is, The lily of testimony.

60: 2 Thou hast made the land to tremble; thou hast rent it: Heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
60: 3 Thou hast showed thy people hard things: Thou hast made us to drink the wine of staggering.
60: 4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, That it may be displayed because of the truth. [Selah
60: 5 That thy beloved may be delivered, Save with thy right hand, and answer ³⁴⁸us.
³⁴⁸Hb^mg reads me.

60: 6 God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult; I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Sukkoth.
60: 7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my head; Judah is my ³⁴⁹sceptre.
³⁴⁹Or, lawgiver.

60: 8 Moab is my washpot; ³⁵⁰Upon Edom will I cast my shoe: Philistia, shout thou because of me.
³⁵⁰Or, Unto Edom

60: 9 Who will bring me into the beseiged city? ³⁵¹Who hath led me unto Edom?
³⁵¹Or, Who will lead me unto Edom

60: 10 ³⁵²Hast not thou, O God, cast us off? And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts.
³⁵²Or, Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off, And goest not forth, O God, with our hosts?

60: 11 Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the ³⁵³help of man.
³⁵³Hb. salvation of man.

60: 12 Through God we shall do valiantly; For he it is that will tread down our adversaries.