Lament over Defeat in Battle, and Prayer for Help.
For the choir director; according to Shushan Eduth. A Mikhtam of David, to teach; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.
O God, aYou have rejected us. You have bbroken us;
You have been cangry; O, drestore us.
2 You have made the aland quake, You have split it open;
bHeal its breaches, for it totters.
3 You have amade Your people experience hardship;
You have given us wine to bdrink that makes us stagger.
4 You have given a abanner to those who fear You,
That it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
5 aThat Your bbeloved may be delivered,
cSave with Your right hand, and answer us!
6 God has spoken in His aholiness:
“I will exult, I will portion out bShechem and measure out the valley of cSuccoth.
7 “aGilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine;
bEphraim also is the helmet of My head;
Judah is My cscepter.
8 “aMoab is My washbowl;
Over bEdom I shall throw My shoe;
Shout loud, O cPhilistia, because of Me!”
9 Who will bring me into the besieged city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
10 Have not You Yourself, O God, arejected us?
And bwill You not go forth with our armies, O God?
11 O give us help against the adversary,
For adeliverance by man is in vain.
12 Through God we shall ado valiantly,
And it is He who will btread down our adversaries.
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