1For the leader; according to “The Lily of.…” A miktam of David (for teaching),
2when he fought against Aram-Naharaim and Aram-Zobah; and Joab, coming back, killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.[#2 Sm 8:2, 3, 13; 1 Chr 18:2, 3, 12.]
3O God, you rejected us, broke our defenses;
you were angry but now revive us.
4You rocked the earth, split it open;[#Ps 75:4; Is 24:19.]
repair the cracks for it totters.
5You made your people go through hardship,
made us stagger from the wine you gave us.
6Raise up a banner for those who revere you,
a refuge for them out of bow shot.
7Help with your right hand and answer us[#These verses occur again as the second half of Ps 108.]
that your loved ones may escape.
8In the sanctuary God promised:[#: God lays claim to these places. : probably the lower stretch of the Jabbok valley.]
“I will exult, will apportion Shechem;
the valley of Succoth I will measure out.
9Gilead is mine, mine is Manasseh;
Ephraim is the helmet for my head,
Judah, my own scepter.
10Moab is my washbowl;[#: Moab borders the Dead Sea, hence a metaphor for the country. : an ancient legal gesture of taking possession of land.]
upon Edom I cast my sandal.
I will triumph over Philistia.”
11Who will bring me to the fortified city?[#: perhaps Bozrah, the fortified capital of Edom, cf. Is 34:6; 63:1; Am 1:12.]
Who will lead me into Edom?
12Was it not you who rejected us, God?
Do you no longer march with our armies?
13Give us aid against the foe;
worthless is human help.
14We will triumph with the help of God,
who will trample down our foes.