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He Will Tread Down Our Foes

To the choirmaster: according to Shushan Eduth. A Miktam^[a] 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.

 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.^[b] 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:^[c]
“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.
⁸ Moab is my washbasin;
upon Edom I cast my shoe;
over Philistia I shout in triumph.”^[d]

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.

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 60:1 Probably musical or liturgical terms
2. Psalm 60:4 Or that it may be displayed because of truth
3. Psalm 60:6 Or sanctuary
4. Psalm 60:8 Revocalization (compare Psalm 108:10); Masoretic Text over me, O Philistia, shout in triumph

Cross references:

1. Psalm 60:1 : Ps. 80, title
2. Psalm 60:1 : See Ps. 16, title
3. Psalm 60:1 : Deut. 31:19
4. Psalm 60:1 : [2 Sam. 8:3, 13, 14; 10:16; 1 Chr. 18:3, 12]
5. Psalm 60:1 : ver. 10; See Ps. 44:9
6. Psalm 60:1 : [2 Sam. 5:20]
7. Psalm 60:1 : See Ps. 80:3
8. Psalm 60:2 : [2 Chr. 7:14]
9. Psalm 60:3 : Ps. 71:20
10. Psalm 60:3 : Job 21:20
11. Psalm 60:3 : Isa. 51:17, 22
12. Psalm 60:4 : Isa. 5:26; 11:12; 13:2; [Ps. 20:5]
13. Psalm 60:4 : Prov. 22:21
14. Psalm 60:5 : For ver. 5-12, see Ps. 108:6-13
15. Psalm 60:5 : Deut. 33:12; Jer. 11:15
16. Psalm 60:6 : Ps. 89:35; Amos 4:2
17. Psalm 60:6 : [Josh. 1:6]
18. Psalm 60:6 : Gen. 12:6; 33:18; Josh. 17:7
19. Psalm 60:6 : Gen. 33:17; Josh. 13:27
20. Psalm 60:7 : Josh. 13:31
21. Psalm 60:7 : Deut. 33:17
22. Psalm 60:7 : Ps. 140:7
23. Psalm 60:7 : Gen. 49:10
24. Psalm 60:8 : [2 Sam. 8:2]
25. Psalm 60:8 : [Matt. 3:11]
26. Psalm 60:8 : [2 Sam. 8:1]
27. Psalm 60:9 : [2 Sam. 8:14]
28. Psalm 60:10 : ver. 1
29. Psalm 60:10 : See Ps. 44:9
30. Psalm 60:11 : [Ps. 146:3]
31. Psalm 60:12 : Ps. 108:13; 118:15, 16; Num. 24:18
32. Psalm 60:12 : Ps. 44:5; Isa. 63:3