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Prayer for Help against Foes
Psa 60:1-12
This was a national psalm to be taught the people. See title; also Deu 31:19. A strong coalition had been formed against David at that time. See 2Sa 10:6; 2Sa 10:8; 2Sa 10:17; 2Sa 10:19; 1Ch 18:12-15. Israel was threatened with disaster. It was as if an earthquake had rent the soil. But the king-psalmist argued that God had given His people a mission in the world, which could not be forfeited. First, Israel carried a banner for the truth, Psa 60:4. In addition, God had “spoken in His holiness” and had promised that the seed of Abraham should possess Canaan. Standing on a hill-summit, the psalmist sees the Land of Promise outspread before him. Shechem and Succoth, Psa 60:6, one west, the other east, of the Jordan, indicate the breadth of the land. All had been given over to Israel by covenant, and therefore the surrounding peoples must become subject.
As yet the strong city of Petra, rock-girded, Psa 60:9, had laughed David to scorn; but he had confidence that God would lead him within its mighty walls, to tread down his adversaries, Num 24:18. Man could not, but God could. The question is never, Can God? but always, Can we trust and follow Him?