Psalm 60 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Psalm 60

Prayer for National Victory after Defeat

To the leader: according to the Lily of the Covenant. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

1O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses;
    you have been angry; now restore us!
2You have caused the land to quake; you have torn it open;
    repair the cracks in it, for it is tottering.
3You have made your people suffer hard things;
    you have given us wine to drink that made us reel.

4You have set up a banner for those who fear you,
to rally to it out of bowshot.[a]Selah
5Give victory with your right hand, and answer us,[b]
so that those whom you love may be rescued.

6God has promised in his sanctuary:[c]
    “With exultation I will divide up Shechem,
    and portion out the Vale of Succoth.
7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine;
    Ephraim is my helmet;
    Judah is my scepter.
8Moab is my washbasin;
    on Edom I hurl my shoe;
    over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

9Who will bring me to the fortified city?
    Who will lead me to Edom?
10Have you not rejected us, O God?
    You do not go out, O God, with our armies.
11O grant us help against the foe,
    for human help is worthless.
12With God we shall do valiantly;
    it is he who will tread down our foes.

Footnotes

Psalm 60:4 Gk Syr Jerome: Heb because of the truth
Psalm 60:5 Another reading is me
Psalm 60:6 Or by his holiness

Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

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