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You have inflicted hardships on your people;
    you have given us wine that made us stagger.[a]
But for those who fear you,
    you have raised up a banner
    to unfurl against the bow.[b] Selah
[c]With your right hand come to our aid and answer us
    so that those you love may be delivered.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 60:5 Wine that made us stagger: God has given them drink from the cup of the divine wrath (see Ps 75:9; Isa 51:17, 22; Jer 25:15) rather than the cup of the divine blessings (see Pss 16:5, including note; 23:5; 116:13).
  2. Psalm 60:6 Bow: symbol of the enemy, which relied on its bows.
  3. Psalm 60:7 These verses occur again as verses 7-14 of Ps 108.

Save us and help us with your right hand,(A)
    that those you love(B) may be delivered.
God has spoken from his sanctuary:
    “In triumph I will parcel out Shechem(C)
    and measure off the Valley of Sukkoth.(D)
Gilead(E) is mine, and Manasseh is mine;
    Ephraim(F) is my helmet,
    Judah(G) is my scepter.(H)

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