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Psalm 60 Free Bible Version

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1 For the music director. According to “Lily of the Testimony.” A psalm (miktam) of David, useful for teaching, about the time he fought against Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and then Joab returned and killed 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. You, God, have rejected us! You have broken us; you have been angry with us; but now you have to welcome us back!
1 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. God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.
2 You have sent earthquakes on our land and split it apart. Now heal the cracks, for the land is still having tremors.
2 You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, for it quakes.
3 You have been very hard on your people; you gave us wine that made us stagger around.
3 You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
4 But you have given those who respect you the banner of truth to unfurl and rally around. Selah.
4 You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
5 Rescue those you love! Answer us, and save us by your power!
5 So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.
6 God has spoken from his Temple: “Triumphantly I divide up Shechem, and portion out the Valley of Succoth.
6 God has spoken from his sanctuary: “I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
7 Both Gilead and Manasseh belong to me. Ephraim is my helmet, and Judah is my scepter.
7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.
8 I will treat Moab as my washbasin; I will place my sandal on Edom; I will shout in triumph over Philistia.”
8 Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my sandal on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia.”
9 Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who will lead me into Edom?
9 Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom?
10 Have you rejected us, God? Won't you lead our armies?
10 Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.
11 Please give us help against our enemies, for human help is worthless.
11 Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.
12 Our strength is in God, and he will crush our enemies.
12 Through God we will do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.
Cross references (12)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 2 Samuel 8:12–13; 2 Samuel 8:3; Psalm 44:9; 1 Chronicles 18:12–13; 2 Samuel 5:20
  2. 2 2 Chronicles 7:14; Hosea 6:1; Isaiah 30:26; Jeremiah 48:38; Jeremiah 4:24
  3. 3 Psalm 71:20; Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 51:22; Jeremiah 25:15; Ezekiel 23:31–32
  4. 4 Psalm 20:5; Exodus 17:15; Isaiah 11:12; Isaiah 5:26; Isaiah 13:2
  5. 5 Isaiah 41:10; Exodus 15:6; Psalm 108:6–13; Psalm 17:7; Psalm 18:35
  6. 6 Joshua 13:27; Psalm 89:35; Genesis 12:6; Joshua 1:6; Joshua 17:7
  7. 7 Genesis 49:10; Deuteronomy 33:17; Joshua 13:31; 1 Chronicles 12:19; Joshua 17:1
  8. 8 2 Samuel 8:14; 2 Samuel 8:1–2; Psalm 108:9–10; 1 Chronicles 18:1–2; 2 Samuel 21:15–22
  9. 9 2 Samuel 12:26–31; 2 Samuel 11:1; Judges 1:12; 1 Chronicles 11:6; 1 Chronicles 11:17–19
  10. 10 Joshua 7:12; Psalm 108:11; Psalm 60:1; Deuteronomy 1:42; Deuteronomy 20:4
  11. 11 Psalm 146:3; Psalm 108:12; Psalm 130:8; Psalm 124:1–3; Isaiah 30:7
  12. 12 Psalm 44:5; Joshua 1:9; Isaiah 63:3; Revelation 19:15; 1 Chronicles 19:13

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LIX)

    As the Scripture is wont to set mysteries of the Psalms on the titles, and to deck the brow of a Psalm with the high announcement of a Mystery, in order that we that are about to go in may know (when as it were upon the door-post we have read what within is doing) either of whom the house …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 60:11 Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (Sermon LXXIV)

    But first passeth away the tribulation of this life, out of which He giveth us help, to whom we have said, "Give us help from tribulation." And all this life is indeed a tribulation to the understanding.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)