Psalms 60:1
God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, for it quakes.
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:17He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”
1 Samuel 13:11Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash,
1 Samuel 31:1Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
2 Samuel 8:3David also struck Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.
2 Samuel 8:13David earned a reputation when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand men of the Syrians in the Valley of Salt.
2 Samuel 10:16Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River; and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 60:1
After many psalms which David penned in a day of distress this comes which was calculated for a day of triumph; it was penned after he was settled in the throne, upon occasion of an illustrious victory which God blessed his forces with over the Syrians and Edomites; it was when David was in the zenith of his prosperity, and the affairs of his kingdom seem to have been in a better posture then ever they were either before or after. See 2 Sam. viii. 3, 13; 1 Chron. xviii. 3, 12 . David, in prosperity, was as devout… Read the whole commentary →