Psalm 59 (MT: Psalm 60)

Translation: ESV

He Will Tread Down Our Foes

To the choirmaster: according to Shushan Eduth. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he 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, you have rejected us, broken our defenses;

    you have been angry; oh, restore us.

2 You have made the land to quake; you have torn it open;

    repair its breaches, for it totters.

3 You have made your people see hard things;

    you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger.

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

    that they may flee to it from the bow. Selah

5 That your beloved ones may be delivered,

    give salvation by your right hand and answer us!

6 God has spoken in his holiness:

    “With exultation I will divide up Shechem

    and portion out the Vale of Succoth.

7 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;

    Ephraim is my helmet;

    Judah is my scepter.

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8 Moab is my washbasin;

    upon Edom I cast my shoe;

    over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

9 Who will bring me to the fortified city?

    Who will lead me to Edom?

10 Have you not rejected us, O God?

    You do not go forth, O God, with our armies.

11 Oh, grant us help against the foe,

    for vain is the salvation of man!

12 With God we shall do valiantly;

    it is he who will tread down our foes.

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