With God We Will Gain the Victory

(2 Samuel 8:1-14; 1 Chronicles 18:1-13)

1O God, you have cast us off, you have scattered us, you have been displeased; O turn yourself to us again.

2You have made the earth to tremble; you have broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shakes.

3You have showed your people hard things: you have made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

4You have given a banner to them that fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

5That your beloved may be delivered; save with your right hand, and hear me.

6God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver;

8Moab is my wash pot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph you because of me.

9Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

10Will not you, O God, which had cast us off? and you, O God, which did not go out with our armies?

11Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

12Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.