Psalm 60:2 You have shaken the land and torn it open; mend its fractures, for it is quaking.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
You have shaken the land and torn it open; mend its fractures, for it is quaking.

English Standard Version
You have made the land to quake; you have torn it open; repair its breaches, for it totters.

New American Standard Bible
You have made the land quake, You have split it open; Heal its breaches, for it totters.

King James Bible
Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You have shaken the land and split it open. Heal its fissures, for it shudders.

International Standard Version
You made the earth quake; you broke it open. Repair its fractures, because it has shifted.

American Standard Version
Thou hast made the land to tremble; thou hast rent it: Heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast moved the earth, and hast troubled it: heal thou the breaches thereof, for it has been moved.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou hast made the earth to tremble, thou hast rent it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast caused the land to tremble, Thou hast broken it, Heal its breaches, for it hath moved.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Psalm 18:7
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

Isaiah 30:26
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up the breach of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.

Lamentations 5:22
But you have utterly rejected us; you are very wroth against us.

Amos 8:8
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwells therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

60:1-5 David owns God's displeasure to be the cause of all the hardships he had undergone. And when God is turning his hand in our favour, it is good to remember our former troubles. In God's displeasure their troubles began, therefore in his favour their prosperity must begin. Those breaches and divisions which the folly and corruption of man make, nothing but the wisdom and grace of God can repair, by pouring out a spirit of love and peace, by which only a kingdom is saved from ruin. The anger of God against sin, is the only cause of all misery, private or public, that has been, is, or shall be. In all these cases there is no remedy, but by returning to the Lord with repentance, faith, and prayer; beseeching him to return to us. Christ, the Son of David, is given for a banner to those that fear God; in him they are gathered together in one, and take courage. In his name and strength they wage war with the powers of darkness.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

PSALM 60

Ps 60:1-12. Shushan-eduth—Lily of testimony. The lily is an emblem of beauty (see on [601]Ps 45:1, title). As a description of the Psalm, those terms combined may denote a beautiful poem, witnessing—that is, for God's faithfulness as evinced in the victories referred to in the history cited. Aram-naharaim—Syria of the two rivers, or Mesopotamia beyond the river (Euphrates) (2Sa 10:16). Aram-zobah—Syria of Zobah (2Sa 10:6), to whose king the king of the former was tributary. The war with Edom, by Joab and Abishai (2Ch 18:12, 25), occurred about the same time. Probably, while doubts and fears alternately prevailed respecting the issue of these wars, the writer composed this Psalm, in which he depicts, in the language of God's people, their sorrows under former disasters, offers prayer in present straits, and rejoices in confident hope of triumph by God's aid.

1-3. allude to disasters.

cast … off—in scorn (Ps 43:2; 44:9).

scattered—broken our strength (compare 2Sa 5:20).

Oh, turn thyself—or, "restore to us" (prosperity). The figures of physical, denote great civil, commotions (Ps 46:2, 3).