Psalms

(59O God, You Have Rejected and Broken Us3O God, you have rejected us and have broken our defenses; you have been angry, but now turn back to us.

You have shaken the land and torn it open; mend its cracks, for it totters.

You have made your people suffer; you have given us wine that makes us stagger.

You set the banner behind us; and your people fled from bow and arrow.

Help us and listen to us, that your beloved may be rescued.

God has spoken in his Sanctuary: “In triumph, I will divide up Shechem and parcel out the Valley of Succoth.

Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet, Judah my scepter.

Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom, I cast my sandal; over Philistia, I shout in triumph.”

Who will take me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

Have you not rejected us, O God? You no longer go with our armies.

Give us aid against the foe, for human help is not worth a straw.

With God, we will gain victory; he will crush the enemy for us.