1 For the chief musician; set to Shushan Eduth. A michtam of David, for teaching. When he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned and killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. God, you have cast us off; you have broken through our defenses; you have been angry; restore us again. 2 You have made the land tremble; you have torn it apart; heal its fissures, for it is shaking. 3 You have made your people see difficult things; you have made us drink the wine of staggering. 4 For those who honor you, you have set up a banner to be displayed against those who carry the bow. Selah 5 So that those you love may be rescued, rescue us with your right hand and answer me. 6 God has spoken in his holiness, “I will rejoice; I will divide Shechem and apportion out the Valley of Succoth. 7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is my helmet; Judah is my scepter. 8 Moab is my washbasin; over Edom I will throw my shoe; I will shout in triumph because of Philistia.” 9 Who will bring me into the strong city? Who will lead me to Edom? 10 But you, God, have you not rejected us? You do not go into battle with our army. 11 Give us help against the enemy, for man's help is futile. 12 We will triumph with God's help; he will trample down our enemies.
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (12)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Samuel 8:12–13; 2 Samuel 8:3; Psalm 44:9; 1 Chronicles 18:12–13; 2 Samuel 5:20
- 2 2 Chronicles 7:14; Hosea 6:1; Isaiah 30:26; Jeremiah 48:38; Jeremiah 4:24
- 3 Psalm 71:20; Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 51:22; Jeremiah 25:15; Ezekiel 23:31–32
- 4 Psalm 20:5; Exodus 17:15; Isaiah 11:12; Isaiah 5:26; Isaiah 13:2
- 5 Isaiah 41:10; Exodus 15:6; Psalm 108:6–13; Psalm 17:7; Psalm 18:35
- 6 Joshua 13:27; Psalm 89:35; Genesis 12:6; Joshua 1:6; Joshua 17:7
- 7 Genesis 49:10; Deuteronomy 33:17; Joshua 13:31; 1 Chronicles 12:19; Joshua 17:1
- 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 2 Samuel 12:26–31; 2 Samuel 11:1; Judges 1:12; 1 Chronicles 11:6; 1 Chronicles 11:17–19
- 10 Joshua 7:12; Psalm 108:11; Psalm 60:1; Deuteronomy 1:42; Deuteronomy 20:4
- 11 Psalm 146:3; Psalm 108:12; Psalm 130:8; Psalm 124:1–3; Isaiah 30:7
- 12 Psalm 44:5; Joshua 1:9; Isaiah 63:3; Revelation 19:15; 1 Chronicles 19:13
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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).
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“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).
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 …
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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.
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