Psalm 60; Victory in a Day of Defeat

By Rev. A.P. McIntyre - Posted at Clogher Valley Free Presbyterian Church

There are two sides to the 60th Psalm, clearly intimated by the contrasts between the first and the final verses:

O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us,
thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again. 

Psalm 60:1

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Through God we shall do valiantly:
for he it is that shall tread down our enemies. 

Psalms 60:12

It seems that God had taken His people from the jaws of defeat to the jubilation of triumph. There was a clear sense, though that it was God and not man which had gotten the victory:

vain is the help of man. 

Psalm 60:11

Indeed the title of the Psalm indicates that it was written after a notable victory south of the Dead Sea in the Valley of Salt.

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