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Raise up a banner for those who revere you,
    a refuge for them out of bow shot.
Selah
[a]Help with your right hand and answer us
    that your loved ones may escape.

II

[b]In the sanctuary God promised:
    “I will exult, will apportion Shechem;
    the valley of Succoth I will measure out.

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Footnotes

  1. 60:7–12 These verses occur again as the second half of Ps 108.
  2. 60:8 I will…apportion…measure out: God lays claim to these places. The valley of Succoth: probably the lower stretch of the Jabbok valley.

God has spoken from his sanctuary:
    “In triumph I will parcel out Shechem(A)
    and measure off the Valley of Sukkoth.(B)
Gilead(C) is mine, and Manasseh is mine;
    Ephraim(D) is my helmet,
    Judah(E) is my scepter.(F)
Moab is my washbasin,
    on Edom I toss my sandal;
    over Philistia I shout in triumph.(G)

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