Psalms 60:1-7

¹For the leader. On shushan eduth. A michtam of David (for teaching), when he fought with Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and defeated twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. O God, you have spurned and broken us, routing us in your wrath — restore us!

²You have shaken the land and cleft it; heal its tottering breaches.

³You have made your people drink hardship, and given us wine of reeling.

⁴You have given those who fear you a banner, a rallying-place from the bow, Selah

⁵for the rescue of your beloved. Save by your right hand and answer us.

⁶God did solemnly swear: “As victor will I divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

⁷Mine is Gilead, mine is Manasseh, Ephraim is the defence of my head, Judah my sceptre of rule,