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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.
1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who 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. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.
3You have shown your people hard things: you have made us drink the wine of astonishment.
3For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
4You have given a token to them that fear you, that they might flee from the bow. Pause.
4I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!
5That your beloved ones may be delivered; save with your right hand, and hear me.
5You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.
6God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, and divide Sicima, and measure out the valley of tents.
6They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.
7Galaad is mine, and Manasse is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head;
7Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”
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 you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.
9Who will lead me into the fortified city? who will guide me as far a Idumea?
9Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.
10Will not you, O God, who have cast us off? and will not you, O God, go forth with our forces?
10My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
11Give us help from trouble: for vain is the deliverance of man.
11Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, 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 be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.