^1aTo the choirmaster in Shushan-Eduth.↑

A Golden Psalm of David to teach, ^1bwhen he contended with Mesopotamia, and Aramaea-Zobah, when Joab returned and attacked Edom in the Valley of Salt – when he killed twelve thousand.

^1cO God, you are averse to us;

You have broken us up.

You have been angry;

Oh restore matters for us.

²You have shaken the land;

You have ruptured it.

Oh heal its fractures,

For it is faltering.

³You have shown your people harshness;

You have given us wine to drink causing reeling.

⁴You have given to those that fear you

A standard to rally around,

On account of the truth.

Selah.

⁵In order that your beloved ones may be delivered,

Oh save with your right hand,

And answer us.

⁶God has said in his holiness,

“I will rejoice,

I will apportion Shechem;

I will allot the Valley of Succoth.

⁷Gilead is mine,

And Manasseh is mine,

And Ephraim is the stronghold of my head.

Judah is my lawgiver.

⁸Moab is my washing basin,

At Edom I will cast my shoe;

Philistia, you shall suffer harm on my account.”

⁹Who will bring me to a fortified city?

Who will lead me to Edom?

¹⁰Have you not, O God,

Been averse to us?

And will you not, O God,

Go out with our armies?

¹¹Oh give us help in adversity,

For man's salvation is false.

¹²Let us act valiantly through God,

And he will trample on our adversaries.