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10 [a]Moab is my washbowl;
    upon Edom I cast my sandal.(A)
I will triumph over Philistia.”

III

11 Who will bring me to the fortified city?[b]
    Who will lead me into Edom?
12 Was it not you who rejected us, God?
    Do you no longer march with our armies?(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 60:10 Moab is my washbowl: Moab borders the Dead Sea, hence a metaphor for the country. Upon Edom I cast my sandal: an ancient legal gesture of taking possession of land.
  2. 60:11 The fortified city: perhaps Bozrah, the fortified capital of Edom, cf. Is 34:6; 63:1; Am 1:12.