1(60) For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, when he had burnt Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria Sobal, and Joab had returned and struck in the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, you have rejected and destroyed us; you have been angry, yet have pitied us.
2You have shaken the earth, and troubled it; heal its breaches, for it has been shaken.
3You have shown your people hard things: you have made us drink the wine of astonishment.
4You have given a token to them that fear you, that they might flee from the bow. Pause.