Psalm 60

You Have Rejected Us

¹God, you have rejected us.

You have broken us down.

You have been angry. Return to us!

²You have shaken the earth. You have torn it open.

Heal its fractures, for it is about to collapse.

³You have made your people suffer hardship.

You gave us wine to drink that makes us stagger.

⁴You have set up a signal flag for those who fear you,

to be raised up against the bow. Interlude

⁵Save us with your right hand and answer us,

so that those you love may be delivered.

⁶God has spoken in his holiness:[#60:6 Or holy place]

“I will triumph. I will distribute Shechem,

and I will measure off the Valley of Succoth.

⁷Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine.

Ephraim is my helmet. Judah is my scepter.

⁸Moab is my washbasin. On Edom I toss my sandal.

I shout aloud over Philistia.”

⁹Who will bring me into the fortified city?

Who will lead me to Edom?

¹⁰God, is it not you, who have rejected us?

God, is it not you, who no longer go out with our armies?

¹¹Give us help against the foe,

for human help is worthless.

¹²In God we will do mighty deeds.

He is the one who will trample our foes.