Psalm 60

Restore after scattering

God has cast off His people, scattered them, broken earth; prayer for healing and help. God speaks of dividing lands and granting victory over enemies.

12 verses. The 60th of 150 chapters in Psalms, in Poetry and Wisdom.

1O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

2Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

3Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

4Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

5That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.

6God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

8Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.

9Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

10Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?

11Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

12Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

Matthew Henry on Psalm 60

3,026 words, in 2 passages.

  1. Verses 1–5David's Complaints and Petitions.
  2. Verses 6–12Rejoicing in Hope.

King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.