Psalms 60
1 For the leader. On shushan eduth. A michtam of David (for teaching), when he fought with Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and defeated twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. O God, you have spurned and broken us, routing us in your wrath – restore us!
In finem, pro his qui immutabuntur, in tituli inscriptionem ipsi David, in doctrinam, cum succendit Mesopotamiam Syriæ et Sobal, et convertit Joab, et percussit Idumæam in valle Salinarum duodecim millia. Deus, repulisti nos, et destruxisti nos; iratus es, et misertus es nobis.
2 You have shaken the land and cleft it; heal its tottering breaches.
Commovisti terram, et conturbasti eam; sana contritiones ejus, quia commota est.
3 You have made your people drink hardship, and given us wine of reeling.
Ostendisti populo tuo dura; potasti nos vino compunctionis.
4 You have given those who fear you a banner, a rallying-place from the bow, (Selah)
Dedisti metuentibus te significationem, ut fugiant a facie arcus; ut liberentur dilecti tui.
5 for the rescue of your beloved. Save by your right hand and answer us.
Salvum fac dextera tua, et exaudi me.
6 God did solemnly swear: ‘As victor will I divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
Deus locutus est in sancto suo: lætabor, et partibor Sichimam; et convallem tabernaculorum metibor.
7 Mine is Gilead, mine is Manasseh, Ephraim is the defence of my head, Judah my sceptre of rule,
Meus est Galaad, et meus est Manasses; et Ephraim fortitudo capitis mei. Juda rex meus;
8 Moab the pot that I wash in, Edom – I cast my shoe over it, I shout o’er Philistia in triumph.’
Moab olla spei meæ. In Idumæam extendam calceamentum meum: mihi alienigenæ subditi sunt.
9 O to be brought to the fortified city! O to be led into Edom!
Quis deducet me in civitatem munitam? quis deducet me usque in Idumæam?
10 Have you not spurned us, O God? You do not march forth with our armies.
nonne tu, Deus, qui repulisti nos? et non egredieris, Deus, in virtutibus nostris?
11 Grant us help from the foe, for human help is worthless.
Da nobis auxilium de tribulatione, quia vana salus hominis.
12 With God we shall yet do bravely: he himself will tread down our foes.
In Deo faciemus virtutem; et ipse ad nihilum deducet tribulantes nos.
