Psalm 60:1-3

Contemporary English Version

(For the music leader. To the tune “Lily of the Promise.” A special psalm by David for teaching. He wrote it during his wars with the Arameans of northern Syria,^[a] when Joab came back and killed twelve thousand Edomites^[b] in Salt Valley.)

You Can Depend on God

¹^(A) You, God, are angry with us!
We are rejected and crushed.
    Make us strong again!
²You made the earth shake
    and split wide open;
now heal its wounds
    and stop its trembling.
³You brought hard times
    on your people,
and you gave us wine
    that made us stagger.

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Footnotes

Psalm 60 wars … Syria: See 2 Samuel 8.3-8; 10.16-18; 1 Chronicles 18.3-11; 19.6-19.
Psalm 60 killed … Edomites: See 2 Samuel 8.13; 1 Chronicles 18.12.