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Psalms 60

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Key Verse

Psalms 60:12 BSB

With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.

Outline

  • O God You Have Cast Us Off, Restore Us Again (v1)
  • You Have Made The Earth Tremble And Shown Us Hard Things (v2-3)
  • You Have Given A Banner To Those Who Fear You (v4-5)
  • God Has Spoken In His Holiness: I Will Rejoice (v6-8)
  • The Help Of Man Is Useless, Through God We Will Do Valiantly (v9-12)

Context

  • Written by David
  • Written in Hebrew
  • Written 1040 B.C. – 970 B.C.
  • Passage type · Poetic
  • 12 verses · 246 words

Notes

To the Chief Musician. Set to “Lily of the Testimony.” A Michtam of David. For Teaching. When He Fought Against Mesopotamia and Syria of Zobah, and Joab Returned and Killed Twelve Thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

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Victory with God

(2 Samuel 8:1–14; 1 Chronicles 18:1–13; Psalm 108:1–13)

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A Miktam of David for instruction. When he fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

1Youabc have rejected us, O God;

You have broken us;

You have been angry;

restore us!

2You have shaken the land

and torn it open.

Heal its fractures,

for it is quaking.

3You have shown Your people hardship;

we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.

4You have raised a banner for those who fear You,

that they may flee the bow.d

Selah

5Respond and save us with Your right hand,

that Your beloved may be delivered.

6God has spoken from His sanctuary:e

“I will triumph!

I will parcel out Shechem

and apportion the Valley of Succoth.

7Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine;

Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.

8Moab is My washbasin;

upon Edom I toss My sandal;

over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

9Who will bring me to the fortified city?

Who will lead me to Edom?

10Have You not rejected us, O God?

Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?

11Give us aid against the enemy,

for the help of man is worthless.

12With God we will perform with valor,

and He will trample our enemies.

  1. a 60:1 Miktam is probably a musical or liturgical term; used for Psalms 16 and 56–60.
  2. b 60:1 That is, Mesopotamia; Aram-naharaim means Aram of the two rivers, likely the region between the Euphrates and Balih Rivers in northwestern Mesopotamia.
  3. c 60:1 That is, the land northeast of Damascus
  4. d 60:4 Or that it may be displayed because of truth
  5. e 60:6 Or in His holiness
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