To the Chief Musician upon shushaneduth. A michtam of David to teach; when he fought with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand.
Prayer For Help in Trouble

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 shown 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 measure out the valley of Succoth.

7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the helmet for my head; Judah is my lawgiver;

8Moab is my washpot; upon 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, who had cast us off? and you, O God, who 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.