Chapter 59

¹ For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, ² when he [had] burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria Zobah, and Joab [had] returned and smitten [in] the Valley of Salt twelve thousand.

Ps 59:1-2

³ O God, thou hast rejected and destroyed us;

Ps 59:3

⁴ Thou hast shaken the earth, and troubled it;

Ps 59:4

⁵ Thou hast shown thy people hard things:

Ps 59:5

⁶ Thou hast given a token to them that fear thee,

Ps 59:6

⁷ That thy beloved ones may be delivered;

Ps 59:7

⁸ God has spoken in his holiness;

Ps 59:8

⁹ Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine;

Ps 59:9

¹⁰ Judah is my king;

Ps 59:10

¹¹ Who will lead me into the fortified city?

Ps 59:11

¹² Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off?

Ps 59:12

¹³ Give us help from trouble:

Ps 59:13

¹⁴ In God will we do valiantly;

Ps 59:14