For by day and by night Your hand was heavy on me; my sap is turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.

Before your pots can feel the thorns, whether green or glowing, He shall sweep it away.

To the Chief Musician. On the Lily of Testimony. A secret treasure of David, to teach; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram of Zobah, when Joab returned and struck twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. O God, You have cast us off, You have scattered us, You were angry; take us back.

The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb; yea, all their princes like Zebah, and like Zalmunna;