Psalm 60

Prayer for National Victory after Defeat

To the leader: according to The Lily of the Covenant. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
¹O God, you have rejected us, broken our defences;
   you have been angry; now restore us!
²You have caused the land to quake; you have torn it open;
   repair the cracks in it, for it is tottering.
³You have made your people suffer hard things;
   you have given us wine to drink that made us reel.

⁴You have set up a banner for those who fear you,
   to rally to it out of bowshot.^*
          Selah
⁵Give victory with your right hand, and answer us,^*
   so that those whom you love may be rescued.