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Psalms 60
David prays out of national defeat — God has scattered the people and shaken the land — then receives an oracle in which Jehovah reasserts sovereign ownership of the covenant territories: Gilead, Manasseh, and Ephraim named as strength, Judah as lawgiver, the surrounding nations as subdued. The banner given to those who fear Jehovah because of truth (verse 4) is an ensign-pattern: a rallying point for the covenant remnant in the moment of apparent abandonment. The psalm closes on the only reliable axis — not the arm of man, but Jehovah who treads down enemies and through whom the people do valiantly.
1
O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
2
Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
3
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
4
Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
5
That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
6
God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
7
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
8
Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
9
Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
10
Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
11
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
12
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
