Psalms 59

1 For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, 2 when he had burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria Zobah, and Joab had returned and smitten in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand.

3 O God, thou hast rejected and destroyed us;

Thou hast been angry, yet hast pitied us.

4 Thou hast shaken the earth, and troubled it;

Heal its breaches, for it has been shaken.

5 Thou hast shown thy people hard things:

Thou hast made us drink the wine of astonishment.

6 Thou hast given a token to them that fear thee,

That they might flee from the bow. Pause.

7 That thy beloved ones may be delivered;

Save with thy right hand, and hear me.

8 God has spoken in his holiness;

I will rejoice, and divide Shechem,

And measure out the Valley of Tents.

9 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine;

And Ephraim is the strength of my head;

10 Judah is my king;

Moab is the caldron of my hope;

Over Edom will I stretch out my shoe;

The Philistines have been subjected to me.

11 Who will lead me into the fortified city?

Who will guide me as far as Edom?

12 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off?

And wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our forces?

13 Give us help from trouble:

For vain is the deliverance of man.

14 In God will we do valiantly;

And he shall bring to nought them that harass us.