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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.

O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses;
    you have been angry; now restore us!(A)

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12 from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, Amalek, and from the spoil of the king of Zobah, Hadadezer son of Rehob.

13 David won a name for himself. When he returned, he killed eighteen thousand Edomites[a] in the Valley of Salt.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 8.13 Gk Syr Heb mss: MT Arameans

David also struck down the king of Zobah, Hadadezer son of Rehob, as he went to restore his monument at the River Euphrates.(A)

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12 Abishai son of Zeruiah killed eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.(A) 13 He put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became subject to David. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.

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Yet you have rejected us and shamed us
    and have not gone out with our armies.(A)

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David also struck down King Hadadezer of Zobah, toward Hamath,[a] as he went to set up a monument at the River Euphrates.

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Footnotes

  1. 18.3 Meaning of Heb uncertain

20 So David came to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. He said, “The Lord has burst forth against my enemies before me like a bursting flood.” Therefore that place is called Baal-perazim.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 5.20 That is, lord of bursting forth

13 Turn, O Lord! How long?
    Have compassion on your servants!(A)

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Restore us again, O God of our salvation,
    and put away your indignation toward us.

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He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm; he called it Jokthe-el, which is its name to this day.(A)

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Israel’s Rejection Is Not Final

11 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.(A) God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?(B)

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31 For the Lord will not
    reject forever.(A)
32 Although he causes grief, he will have compassion
    according to the abundance of his steadfast love;(B)

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19 Then you spoke in a vision to your faithful one and said,
    “I have set the crown[a] on one who is mighty;
    I have exalted one chosen from the people.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 89.19 Cn: Heb help

You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one;
    I have sworn to my servant David:(A)

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Restore us, O God;
    let your face shine, that we may be saved.(A)

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How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever?
    Will your jealous wrath burn like fire?(A)

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Psalm 74

Plea for Help in Time of National Humiliation

A Maskil of Asaph.

O God, why do you cast us off forever?
    Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?(A)

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10 Have you not rejected us, O God?
    You do not go out, O God, with our armies.(A)

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11 Do not kill them, or my people may forget;
    make them totter by your power and bring them down,
    O Lord, our shield.(A)

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Psalm 59

Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies

To the leader: Do Not Destroy. Of David. A Miktam, when Saul ordered his house to be watched in order to kill him.

Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;
    protect me from those who rise up against me.(A)

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11 Amaziah strengthened himself and led out his people; he went to the Valley of Salt and struck down ten thousand men of Seir.(A)

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“And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with single mind and willing heart, for the Lord searches every mind and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will abandon you forever.(A)

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16 But when the Arameans saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messengers and brought out the Arameans who were beyond the River, with Shophach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head.(A) 17 When David was informed, he gathered all Israel together, crossed the Jordan, came to them, and drew up his forces against them. When David set the battle in array against the Arameans, they fought with him.(B) 18 The Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven thousand Aramean charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers and also Shophach the commander of their army.(C) 19 When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became subject to him. So the Arameans were not willing to help the Ammonites any more.(D)

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The Death of Saul and His Sons

31 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and many fell[a] on Mount Gilboa.(A) The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchishua, the sons of Saul. The battle pressed hard on Saul, and the archers found him, and he was badly wounded by them.(B) Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised may not come and thrust me through and make sport of me.” But his armor-bearer was unwilling, for he was terrified. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.(C) When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him. So Saul and his three sons and his armor-bearer and all his men died together on the same day. When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their towns and fled, and the Philistines came and occupied them.

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Footnotes

  1. 31.1 Heb and they fell slain

19 Now there was no smith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “The Hebrews must not make swords or spears for themselves,”(A) 20 so all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, or sickles.[a] 21 The charge was two-thirds of a shekel[b] for the plowshares and for the mattocks and one-third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.[c] 22 So on the day of the battle neither sword nor spear was to be found in the possession of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and his son Jonathan had them.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 13.20 Gk: Heb plowshare
  2. 13.21 Heb was a pim
  3. 13.21 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain