For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

• ¹God, you have rejected us.
• You have broken us down.

• You have been angry.
• Restore us, again.

• ²You have made the land tremble.
• You have torn it.

• Mend its fractures,
• for it quakes.

• ³You have shown your people hard things.
• You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

• ⁴You have given a banner to those who fear you,
• that it may be displayed because of the truth.

• Selah.

• ⁵So that your beloved may be delivered,
• save with your right hand, and answer us.

• ⁶God has spoken from his sanctuary:
• “I will triumph.
• I will divide Shechem,
• and measure out the valley of Succoth.

• ⁷Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine.
• Ephraim also is the defense of my head.
• Judah is my scepter.

• ⁸Moab is my wash basin.
• I will throw my shoe on Edom.
• I shout in triumph over Philistia.”

• ⁹Who will bring me into the strong city?
• Who has led me to Edom?

• ¹⁰Haven’t you, God, rejected us?
• You don’t go out with our armies, God.

• ¹¹Give us help against the adversary,
• for the help of man is vain.

• ¹²Through God we shall do valiantly,
• for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.