| 1 | Unto the end. For those who will be changed, with the inscription of a title, of David himself, for instruction: |
| 2 | when he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal, and Joab turned back and struck Idumea, in the valley of the salt pits, twelve thousand men. |
| 3 | O God, you have rejected us, and you have ruined us. You became angry, and yet you have been merciful to us. |
| 4 | You have moved the earth, and you have disturbed it. Heal its breaches, for it has been moved. |
| 5 | You have revealed to your people difficulties. You have made us drink the wine of remorse. |
| 6 | You have given a warning sign to those who fear you, so that they may flee from before the face of the bow, so that your beloved may be delivered. |
| 7 | Save me with your right hand, and hear me. |
| 8 | God has spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will divide Shechem, and I will measure the steep valley of the tabernacles. |
| 9 | Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. And Ephraim is the strength of my head. Judah is my king. |
| 10 | Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. Into Idumea, I will extend my shoe. To me, the foreigners have been made subject. |
| 11 | Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will lead me all the way to Idumea? |
| 12 | Will not you, O God, who has rejected us? And will not you, O God, go out with our armies? |
| 13 | Grant us help from tribulation. For salvation from man is empty. |
| 14 | In God, we will act virtuously. And those who trouble us, he will lead to nothing. |
