Psalm 60: Through God We Shall Do Valiantly
A psalm of national defeat answered by God's promise of victory.
Psalm 60 opens by mourning that God has cast off and scattered His people, making the earth 'tremble' and its breaches need healing, a communal distress unlike the personal danger of Psalms 59. God then answers 'in his holiness,' claiming Shechem, Gilead, and Manasseh as His own.
Unto the end, in hymns, for David.
Hear, O God, my supplication: be attentive to my prayer.
To thee have I cried from the ends of the earth: when my heart was in anguish, thou hast exalted me on a rock. Thou hast conducted me;
For thou hast been my hope; a tower of strength against the face of the enemy.
In thy tabernacle I shall dwell for ever: I shall be protected under the covert of thy wings.
For thou, my God, hast heard my prayer: thou hast given an inheritance to them that fear thy name.
Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years even to generation and generation.
He abideth for ever in the sight of God: his mercy and truth who shall search?
So will I sing a psalm to thy name for ever and ever: that I may pay my vows from day to day.