Psalm 59
1 For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, 2 when he had burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria Sobal, and Joab had returned and smitten in the valley of salt twelve thousand.
3 O God, thou hast rejected and destroyed us;
thou hast been angry, yet hast pitied us.
4 Thou hast shaken the earth, and troubled it;
heal its breaches, for it hath been shaken.
5 Thou hast shown thy people hard things:
thou hast made us drink the wine of astonishment.
6 Thou hast given a token to them that fear thee,
that they might flee from the bow.
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7 That thy beloved ones may be delivered;
save with thy right hand, and hear me.
8 God hath spoken in his holiness;
I will rejoice, and divide Sychem,
and measure out the valley of tents.
9 Galaad is mine, and Manasses is mine;
and Ephraim is the [1]strength of my head;
10 Judah is my king;
Moab is the cauldron of my hope;
over Idumea will I stretch out my shoe;
the Philistines have been subjected to me.
11 Who will lead me into the fortified city?
who will guide me as far as Idumea?
12 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off?
and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our forces?
13 Give us help from trouble:
for vain is the deliverance of man.
14 In God will we [2]do valiantly;
and he shall bring to nought them that harass us.