To the choirmaster: according to Shushan Eduth. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return struck down twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.
1O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; oh, restore us.[1] (2 Sm 5,20; Ps 44,9; Ps 60,10; Ps 80,3)2You have made the land to quake; you have torn it open; repair its breaches, for it totters. (2 Krn 7,14)3You have made your people see hard things; you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger. (Job 21,20; Ps 71,20; Iz 51,17; Iz 51,22)4You have set up a banner for those who fear you, that they may flee to it from the bow.[2] Selah (Ps 20,5; Przyp 22,21; Iz 5,26; Iz 11,12; Iz 13,2)5That your beloved ones may be delivered, give salvation by your right hand and answer us! (Pwt 33,12; Ps 108,6; Jer 11,15)6God has spoken in his holiness:[3] “With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth. (Rdz 12,6; Rdz 33,17; Rdz 33,18; Joz 1,6; Joz 13,27; Joz 17,7; Ps 89,35; Am 4,2)7Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter. (Rdz 49,10; Pwt 33,17; Joz 13,31; Ps 140,7)8Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”[4] (2 Sm 8,1; 2 Sm 8,2; Mt 3,11)9Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom? (2 Sm 8,14)10Have you not rejected us, O God? You do not go forth, O God, with our armies. (Ps 44,9; Ps 60,1)11Oh, grant us help against the foe, for vain is the salvation of man! (Ps 146,3)12With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes. (Lb 24,18; Ps 44,5; Ps 108,13; Ps 118,15; Ps 118,16; Iz 63,3)