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Psal. 60. Deus repulisti.

Ad Præstantem, super Sushan-Eduth, Michtam Davidis, ad docendum, cùm contenderet erga Aram Naharaim, & erga Aram-zobah, & conversus Joab, et percussit Edom in valle Salis duodecim millia.

1

Thou hast, O God, cast us aside,
routed our poore remaine:

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Thine angry brow hast bent to chide,
O turne to us againe.

2

The trembling earth thou didst invade,
and rifts therein hast cleft:
O heale the breaches thou hast made,
for it is shaking left.

3

Thou shewdst thy people harder things,
than they had borne before:
Of wine, that stupid horrour brings,
to drinke, thou gav'st them store.

4

To them that feare thee hast thou given
a signe, to shun the bow:
A Banner, by the hand of Heaven
set up, for truth to shew.

5

That free deliverance they may have,
that are belov'd of thee:
With thy resistlesse right hand save,
O heare and answer mee.

6

God in his Holinesse hath spoke,
which I with joy repeat:
In Shechem will I strike the stroke,
and Succoths valley mete.

7

Mine Galghad is, Manasseh mine,
strength of my head doth live:
In quiver-bearing Ephraims line,
my Law shall Judah give.

8

My wash-pot Moab will I make,
my shooe on Edom fling:
Thy pride, Pelesheth overtake,
and to my triumphs bring.

9

The Citie of such strength within,
what guide shall make me get?
The warlike Edoms towers to win,
what Leader shall I set?

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10

When thou, O God, as nought of worth,
hast cast us off so long;
And with our Armies wentst not forth,
to make our battels strong.

11

O give us help from our distresse,
mans health is vaine deceit:
Through God we shall doe valiantnesse,
our foes he shall defeat.