Psalms 60:1

To him that excelleth upon Shushan Eduth, or Michtam. A Psalme of David to teach. When he fought against Aram Naharaim, and against Aram Zobah, when Joab returned and slew twelve thousand Edomites in the salt valley. O God, thou hast cast vs out, thou hast scattered vs, thou hast bene angry, turne againe vnto vs.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

In Context

2Thou hast made the land to tremble, and hast made it to gape: heale the breaches thereof, for it is shaken.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 4:17Then the messenger answered and sayd, Israel is fled before the Philistims, and there hath bene also a great slaughter among the people: and moreouer thy two sonnes, Hophni and Phinehas are dead, and the Arke of God is taken.

1 Samuel 13:11And Samuel saide, What hast thou done? Then Saul saide, Because I sawe that the people was scattred from me, and that thou camest not within the daies appoynted, and that the Philistims gathered themselues together to Michmash,

1 Samuel 31:1Now the Philistims fought against Israel, and the me of Israel fled away from ye Philistims, and they fell downe wounded in mount Gilboa.

2 Samuel 8:3Dauid smote also Hadadezer the sonne of Rehob King of Zobah, as he went to recouer his border at the riuer Euphrates.

2 Samuel 8:13So Dauid gate a name after that hee returned, and had slayne of the Aramites in the valley of salt eighteene thousand men.

2 Samuel 10:16And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Aramites that were beyond the Riuer: and they came to Helam, and Shobach the captaine of the hoste of Hadarezer went before them.

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 →

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