the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Psalms 60
He Will Tread Down Our Foes
To the choirmaster: according to (a)Shushan Eduth. A (b)Miktam[a] of David; (c)for instruction; when he (d)strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return struck down twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.
1 O God, (e)you have rejected us, (f)broken our defenses;
you have been angry; (g)oh, restore us.
2 You have made the land to quake; you have torn it open;
(h)repair its breaches, for it totters.
3 (i)You have made your people see hard things;
(j)you have given us (k)wine to drink that made us stagger.
4 You have set up (l)a banner for those who fear you,
that they may flee to it (m)from the bow.[b] Selah
5 (n)That your (o)beloved ones may be delivered,
give salvation by your right hand and answer us!
6 God has spoken (p)in his holiness:[c]
"With exultation (q)I will divide up (r)Shechem
and portion out the Vale of (s)Succoth.
7 (t)Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;
(u)Ephraim is (v)my helmet;
Judah is my (w)scepter.
8 (x)Moab is my washbasin;
upon Edom I (y)cast my shoe;
over (z)Philistia I shout in triumph."[d]
9 Who will bring me to the fortified city?
(aa)Who will lead me to Edom?
10 Have you not (ab)rejected us, O God?
You (ac)do not go forth, O God, with our armies.
11 Oh, grant us help against the foe,
for (ad)vain is the salvation of man!
12 With God we shall (ae)do valiantly;
it is he who will (af)tread down our foes.
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