Psalms 60:3
You have shown your people hard things.You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
In Context
2You have made the land tremble.You have torn it.Mend its fractures,for it quakes.
4You have given a banner to those who fear you,that it may be displayed because of the truth.Selah.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, do not let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
Psalms 75:8For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup,full of foaming wine mixed with spices.He pours it out.Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.
Psalms 80:8You brought a vine out of Egypt.You drove out the nations, and planted it.
Psalms 89:39You have renounced the covenant of your servant.You have defiled his crown in the dust.
Isaiah 51:22Thus says your Lord God, and your God who pleads the cause of his people, "Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you shall no more drink it again:
Lamentations 4:21Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz.The cup shall pass through to you also; you will get drunk, and shall make yourself naked.TAV
Matthew Henry on Psalms 60:2-6
David's Complaints and Petitions. 1 O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again. 2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh. 3 Thou hast showed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. 4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah. 5 That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and… Read the whole commentary →