Psalms

¹ God! you walked off and left us, kicked our defenses to bits And stalked off angry. Come back. Oh please, come back!

² ripped open huge crevasses. Heal the breaks! Everything's coming apart at the seams.

³ then gave us cheap wine to drown our troubles.

⁴ an unfurled flag to look to for courage.

⁵ so the one you love best is saved.

⁶ "Bursting with joy, I make a present of Shechem, I hand out Succoth Valley as a gift.

⁷ to say nothing of Manasseh. Ephraim's my hard hat, Judah my hammer;

⁸ I mop the floor with Moab, Spit on Edom, rain fireworks all over Philistia."

⁹ Who'll show me the road to Edom?

¹⁰ refusing to go out with our troops?

¹¹ human help is worthless.

¹² he'll flatten the opposition for good.