3-5 You made your people look doom in the face,
    then gave us cheap wine to drown our troubles.
Then you planted a flag to rally your people,
    an unfurled flag to look to for courage.
Now do something quickly, answer right now,
    so the one you love best is saved.

6-8 That’s when God spoke in holy splendor,
    “Bursting with joy,
I make a present of Shechem,
    I hand out Succoth Valley as a gift.
Gilead’s in my pocket,
    to say nothing of Manasseh.
Ephraim’s my hard hat,
    Judah my hammer;
Moab’s a scrub bucket,
    I mop the floor with Moab,
Spit on Edom,
    rain fireworks all over Philistia.”

Read full chapter

But for those who fear you, you have raised a banner(A)
    to be unfurled against the bow.[a]

Save us and help us with your right hand,(B)
    that those you love(C) may be delivered.
God has spoken from his sanctuary:
    “In triumph I will parcel out Shechem(D)
    and measure off the Valley of Sukkoth.(E)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 60:4 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.