Psalm 59

(60) For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, when he had burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria Sobal, and Joab had returned and struck in the valley of salt twelve thousand.

1O 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.

5That your beloved ones may be delivered; save with your right hand, and hear me.

6God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, and divide Sicima, and measure out the valley of tents.

7Galaad is mine, and Manasse is mine; and Ephraim is the 1 strength of my head;

8Judas is my king; Moab is the caldron of my hope; over Idumea will I stretch out my shoe; the Philistines have been subjected to me.

9Who will lead me into the fortified city? who will guide me as far a Idumea?

10Will not you, O God, who have cast us off? and will not you, O God, go forth with our forces?

11Give us help from trouble: for vain is the deliverance of man.

12In God will we 2 do valiantly; and he shall bring to nothing them that harass us.