Psalms 60:3
You have showed your people hard things: you have made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
Updated King James Version
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 earth to tremble; you have broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shakes.
4You have given a banner to them that 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 terrible God, who keep covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before you, that has come upon 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 unto this day.
Psalms 75:8For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he pours out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Psalms 80:8You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Psalms 89:39You have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
Isaiah 51:22Thus says your Lord the LORD, and your God that pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of yours hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; you shall no more drink it again:
Lamentations 4:21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto you: you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked.
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 →