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Urgent Prayer for the Restored Favor of God

To the Chief Musician. Set to “Lily of the Testimony.” A Michtam of David. For teaching. When he fought against Mesopotamia and Syria of Zobah, and Joab returned and killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

1 O God, aYou have cast us off;
You have broken us down;
You have been displeased;
Oh, restore us again! 
2 You have made the earth tremble;
You have broken it;
aHeal its breaches, for it is shaking. 
3 aYou have shown Your people hard things;
bYou have made us drink the wine of1 confusion. 
4 aYou have given a banner to those who fear You,
That it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah 
5 aThat Your beloved may be delivered,
Save with Your right hand, and hear me. 
6 God has aspoken in His holiness:
“I will rejoice;
I will bdivide cShechem
And measure out dthe Valley of Succoth. 
7 Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine;
aEphraim also is the helmet for My head;
bJudah is My lawgiver. 
8 aMoab is My washpot;
bOver Edom I will cast My shoe;
cPhilistia, shout in triumph because of Me.” 
9 Who will bring me to the strong city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
10 Is it not You, O God, awho cast us off?
And You, O God, who did bnot go out with our armies? 
11 Give us help from trouble,
aFor the help of man is useless. 
12 Through God awe will do valiantly,
For it is He who shall tread down our enemies. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Psalms 60:1-3

Shushan-eduth—Lily of testimony. The lily is an emblem of beauty (see on Psalms 45:1, title). As a description of the Psalm, those terms combined may denote a beautiful poem, witnessing—that is, for God's faithfulness as evinced in the victories referred to in the history cited. Aram-naharaim—Syria of the two rivers, or Mesopotamia beyond the river (Euphrates) (II Samuel 10:16). Aram-zobah—Syria of Zobah (II Samuel 10:6), to whose king the king of the former was tributary. The war with Edom, by Joab and Abishai (II Chronicles 18:12, II Chronicles 18:25), occurred about the same time. Probably, while doubts and fears alternately prevailed respecting the issue of these wars, the writer composed this Psalm, in which he depicts, in the language of God's people, their sorrows under former disasters, offers prayer in present straits, and rejoices in confident hope of triumph by God's aid. (Psalms 60:1-12)

allude to disasters.

cast . . . off—in scorn (Psalms 43:2; Psalms 44:9).

scattered—broken our strength (compare II Samuel 5:20).

Oh, turn thyself—or, "restore to us" (prosperity). The figures of physical, denote great civil, commotions (Psalms 46:2-3).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Psalms 60:2:

Psalms 60:1-3
Amos 6:6

 

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