[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 smitten in the valley of salt twelve thousand.][1]O God, thou hast rejected and destroyed us; thou hast been angry, yet hast pitied us.[2]Thou hast shaken the earth, and troubled it; heal its breaches, for it has been shaken.[3]Thou hast shewn thy people hard things: thou has made us drink the wine of astonishment.[4]Thou hast given a token to them that fear thee, that they might flee from the bow. Pause.[5]That thy beloved ones may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.[6]God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, and divide Sicima, and measure out the valley of tents.[7]Galaad is mine, and Manasse is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head;[8]Judas 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.[9]Who will lead me into the fortified city? who will guide me as far a Idumea?[10]Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our forces?[11]Give us help from trouble: for vain is the deliverance of man.[12]In God will we do valiantly; and he shall bring to nought them that harass us.
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Author: Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)
Source: ecmarsh.com