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Psalms 60:1-4

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

1. To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, 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. Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh. 3. Thou hast shewed 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.

Psalms 60:1-4 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 60:1

Theological / Devotional

Thou. The eightfold repetition of this pronoun at the beginning of the successive clauses in vs. 1–4 in KJV (a rhetorical figure called anaphora) makes the English of the passage strikingly forceful rhetorically.

Cast us off. Compare Ps. 43:2 ; 44:9–11.

Scattered. Or, “broken.” The Hebrew word thus translated suggests either the defeat of an army whose ranks are broken, or the breaking down of a wall through the use of siege instruments (see Judges 21:15; 2 Sam. 5:20 ; 6:8).

Displeased. The psalmist regarded defeat as an evidence of God’s displeasure.

Turn thyself to us. Or,“restore us.”

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