1TO THE OVERSEER. [SET] ON “LILY OF TESTIMONY.” A MIKTAM OF DAVID, TO TEACH, IN HIS STRIVING WITH ARAM-NAHARAIM AND WITH ARAM-ZOBAH, WHEN JOAB TURNS BACK AND STRIKES EDOM IN THE VALLEY OF SALT—TWELVE THOUSAND. O God, You had cast us off, "" You had broken us—had been angry! You turn back to us.

2You have caused the land to tremble, "" You have broken it, "" Heal its breaches, for it has moved.

3You have shown Your people a hard thing, "" You have caused us to drink wine of trembling.

4You have given an ensign to those fearing You, "" To be lifted up as an ensign "" Because of truth. Selah.

5That Your beloved ones may be drawn out, "" Save [with] Your right hand, and answer us.

6God has spoken in His holiness: I exult—I apportion Shechem, "" And I measure the Valley of Succoth,

7Gilead [is] Mine, and Manasseh [is] Mine, "" And Ephraim [is] the strength of My head, "" Judah [is] My lawgiver,

8Moab [is] My pot for washing, "" Over Edom I cast My shoe, "" Shout, concerning Me, O Philistia.

9Who brings me [to] a city of bulwarks? Who has led me to Edom?

10Is it not You, O God? Have You cast us off? And do You not go forth, O God, with our hosts?

11Give to us help from adversity, "" And the deliverance of man [is] vain.

We do mightily in God, "" And He treads down our adversaries!