He Will Tread Down Our Foes
To the choirmaster: according to aShushan Eduth. A bMiktam of David; cfor instruction; when he dstrove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return struck down twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.
O God, eyou have rejected us, fbroken our defenses;
you have been angry; goh, restore us.
2 You have made the land to quake; you have torn it open;
arepair its breaches, for it totters.
3 aYou have made your people see hard things;
byou have given us cwine to drink that made us stagger.
4 You have set up aa banner for those who fear you,
that they may flee to it bfrom the bow. Selah
5 aThat your bbeloved ones may be delivered,
give salvation by your right hand and answer us!
6 God has spoken ain his holiness:
“With exultation bI will divide up cShechem
and portion out the Vale of dSuccoth.
7 aGilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;
bEphraim is cmy helmet;
Judah is my dscepter.
8 aMoab is my washbasin;
upon Edom I bcast my shoe;
over cPhilistia I shout in triumph.”
9 Who will bring me to the fortified city?
aWho will lead me to Edom?
10 Have you not arejected us, O God?
You bdo not go forth, O God, with our armies.
11 Oh, grant us help against the foe,
for avain is the salvation of man!
12 With God we shall ado valiantly;
it is he who will btread down our foes.