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Psalms 59
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1(60) For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, when he [had] burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria Sobal, and Joab [had] returned and struck [in] the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, you have rejected and destroyed us; you have been angry, yet have pitied us.
1Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
2You have shaken the earth, and troubled it; heal its breaches, for it has been shaken.
2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
3You have shown your people hard things: you have made us drink the wine of astonishment.
3For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord.
4You have given a token to them that fear you, that they might flee from the bow. Pause.
4They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
5That your beloved ones may be delivered; save with your right hand, and hear me.
5Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
6God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, and divide Sicima, and measure out the valley of tents.
6They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
7Galaad is mine, and Manasse is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head;
7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
8Judas is my king; Moab is the caldron of my hope; over Idumea will I stretch out my shoe; the Philistines have been subjected to me.
8But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
9Who will lead me into the fortified city? who will guide me as far a Idumea?
9Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.
10Will not you, O God, who have cast us off? and will not you, O God, go forth with our forces?
10The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.
11Give us help from trouble: for vain is the deliverance of man.
11Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
12In God will we do valiantly; and he shall bring to nothing them that harass us.
12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.