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Chapter 60 :

Prayer for National Victory after Defeat

To the leader: according to the Lily of the Covenant. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

1 O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses;
you have been angry; now restore us!

2 You have caused the land to quake; you have torn it open;
repair the cracks in it, for it is tottering.

3 You have made your people suffer hard things;
you have given us wine to drink that made us reel.

4 You have set up a banner for those who fear you,
to rally to it out of bowshot. Selah

5 Give victory with your right hand, and answer us,
so that those whom you love may be rescued.

6 God has promised in his sanctuary:
“With exultation I will divide up Shechem,

and portion out the Vale of Succoth.

7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim is my helmet;
Judah is my scepter.

8 Moab is my washbasin;
on Edom I hurl 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 out, O God, with our armies.

11 O grant us help against the foe,
for human help is worthless.

12 With God we shall do valiantly;
it is he who will tread down our foes.



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