The Message Bible MSG
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 God! you walked off and left us, kicked our defenses to bits And stalked off angry. Come back. Oh please, come back!
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To the Overseer. -- `Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us.
2 You shook earth to the foundations, ripped open huge crevasses. Heal the breaks! Everything's coming apart at the seams.
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Thou hast caused the land to tremble, Thou hast broken it, Heal its breaches, for it hath moved.
3 You made your people look doom in the face, then gave us cheap wine to drown our troubles.
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Thou hast shewn Thy people a hard thing, Thou hast caused us to drink wine of trembling.
4 Then you planted a flag to rally your people, an unfurled flag to look to for courage.
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Thou hast given to those fearing thee an ensign. To be lifted up as an ensign Because of truth. Selah.
5 Now do something quickly, answer right now, so the one you love best is saved.
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That Thy beloved ones may be drawn out, Save [with] Thy right hand, and answer us.
6 That's when God spoke in holy splendor, "Bursting with joy, I make a present of Shechem, I hand out Succoth Valley as a gift.
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God hath spoken in His holiness: I exult -- I apportion Shechem, And the valley of Succoth I measure,
7 Gilead's in my pocket, to say nothing of Manasseh. Ephraim's my hard hat, Judah my hammer;
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Mine [is] Gilead, and mine [is] Manasseh, And Ephraim [is] the strength of my head, Judah [is] my lawgiver,
8 Moab's a scrub bucket, I mop the floor with Moab, Spit on Edom, rain fireworks all over Philistia."
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Moab [is] my pot for washing, over Edom I cast my shoe, Shout, concerning me, O Philistia.
9 Who will take me to the thick of the fight? Who'll show me the road to Edom?
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Who doth bring me [to] a city of bulwarks? Who hath led me unto Edom?
10 You aren't giving up on us, are you, God? refusing to go out with our troops?
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Is it not Thou, O God? hast Thou cast us off? And dost Thou not go forth, O God, with our hosts!
11 Give us help for the hard task; human help is worthless.
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Give to us help from adversity, And vain [is] the deliverance of man.
12 In God we'll do our very best; he'll flatten the opposition for good.
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In God we do mightily, And He treadeth down our adversaries!
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