For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A Miktam + 60:1 Miktam is probably a musical or liturgical term; used for Psalms 16 and 56–60. of David for instruction. When he fought Aram-naharaim + 60:1 That is, Mesopotamia; Aram-naharaim means Aram of the two rivers , likely the region between the Euphrates and Balih Rivers in northwestern Mesopotamia. and Aram-zobah, + 60:1 That is, the land northeast of Damascus and Joab returned and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
Victory with God
2 Samuel 8:1–14; 1 Chronicles 18:1–13; Psalm 108:1–13
1O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again.+ 2Thou hast made the land to tremble; thou hast rent it: Heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.+ 3Thou hast showed thy people hard things: Thou hast made us to drink the wine of staggering.+ 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 answer us.+ 6God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult; I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.+ 7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my head; Judah is my sceptre.+ 8Moab is my washpot; Upon Edom will I cast my shoe: Philistia, shout thou because of me.+ 9Who will bring me into the strong city? Who hath led me unto Edom?+ 10Hast not thou, O God, cast us off? And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts.+ 11Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.+ 12Through God we shall do valiantly; For he it is that will tread down our adversaries.+