Psalms 60:1
O God, thou hast rejected us—hast scattered us, Thou hast been angry, Wilt thou restore us?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
2Thou hast shaken the land—hast rent it, Heal thou the fractures thereof—for it hath tottered:
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:17And the bearer of tidings answered, and said—Israel hath fled before the Philistines, Moreover also, a great smiting, hath taken place among the people,—Moreover also, thy two sons, are slain, Hophni and Phinehas, And, the ark of God, is taken.
1 Samuel 13:11Then said Samuel—What hast thou done? And Saul said—Because I saw that the people had been scattered from me, and, thou, hadst not come within the appointed days, and, the Philistines, had gathered themselves together to Michmash,
1 Samuel 31:1Now, as, the Philistines, were fighting against Israel, the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell slain, in Mount Gilboa.
2 Samuel 8:3And David smote Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah,—when he went to lay his hand on the River Euphrates.
2 Samuel 8:13And David made a name, when he returned from his smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt,—eighteen thousand.
2 Samuel 10:16and Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the River, and they entered Helam,—Shobach the prince of the host of Hadadezer being 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 →