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A torn army regroups beneath a raised banner as cracked earth runs through a valley toward a distant fortified city.
KING JAMES VERSION

PSALMS 60

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CHAPTER VISUAL

Psalms 60 — After national defeat, David asks the LORD to heal the land, rally His beloved, and lead them beyond vain human help.

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The geographic claims are suggested by a broad ancient landscape rather than a labeled map; battle is shown only in aftermath.

Scripture basis: Psalms 60:1–12
  1. 1To the chief Musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
  2. 2Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
  3. 3Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
  4. 4Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
  5. 5That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
  6. 6God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
  7. 7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
  8. 8Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
  9. 9Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
  10. 10Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
  11. 11Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
  12. 12Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

King James Version · Standardized 1769 text with Strong’s numbering · Public domain outside the United Kingdom

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