For the Musical Director;
To the tune of The Lily of the Testimony.
An inscribed poem of David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned and he smote 12,000 of Edom in the Valley of Salt.
1O God, you have rejected us. You have broken us. You have been angry. Return to us.
2You have made the land quake. You have split it open. Heal its fractures, for it shakes.
3You have made your people experience hardship. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
4You have given a banner to those who fear you, to be displayed for the sake of truth. Selah.
5So that your beloved people may be delivered, save with your right hand and answer us.
6God has spoken from his sanctuary: “I will triumph. I will divide up Shechem, and measure out the Valley of Sukkoth.
7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the protection of my head. Judah is my scepter.
8Moab is my wash pot. I will throw my sandal toward Edom. O Philistia, shout in jubilation because of me!”
9Who will bring me into a fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
10O God, have you not rejected us? And will you not go out with our armies, O God?
11Give us help against our foe, for the deliverance of man is worthless.
12Through God we will do a mighty work, for it is he who will trample down our foes.
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