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 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.+