Psalm 60:1-3

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

Psalm 60

Prayer for National Victory after Defeat

To the leader: according to The Lily of the Covenant. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

¹O God, you have rejected us, broken our defences;
    you have been angry; now restore us!
²You have caused the land to quake; you have torn it open;
    repair the cracks in it, for it is tottering.
³You have made your people suffer hard things;
    you have given us wine to drink that made us reel.

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