1. For the Chief Musician; set to Shushan Eduth: Michtam of David, to teach: when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; thou hast been angry; O restore us again.
2. Thou hast made the land to tremble; thou hast rent 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 staggering.
4. Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah
5. That thy beloved may be delivered, save with thy right hand, and answer us.