Psalm 59 — The Holy Bible

For the End; for things yet to be changed; for a pillar inscription; by David; for teaching, when he burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syrian Soba, and Joab returned and struck twelve thousand in the Valley of Salt.

O God, You drove us off and destroyed us;

You were angry, and had mercy on us.

You made the earth quake, and You troubled it;

Repair its ruins, for it was shaken.

You showed Your people difficult things;

You made us drink the wine of bewilderment.

You gave a sign to those who fear You,

So they may flee from the face of the bow.

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That Your beloved may be rescued,

Save with Your right hand, and hear me.

God spoke in His holy place:

I will greatly rejoice, and divide Shechem,

And I will measure out the valley of the tabernacles.

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine,

And Ephraim is the strength of my head;

Judah is my king.

Moab is the cauldron of my hope;

Over Edom I will extend my shoe;

Foreign tribes were subjected to me.

Who will bring me into a fortified city?

Who will lead me as far as Edom?

Will not You, O God, who drove us away?

And will not You, O God, go out with our armies?

Give us help from affliction,

For the salvation of man is useless.

But in God we shall work power,

And He will utterly scorn those who afflict us.