Psalm 60                                   

“That Your beloved may be delivered, save with Your right hand, and answer us!” (v4-5).  A community in danger, without defenses (v1), was crying out to God.  Israel felt that God had rejected them: “You do not go forth, O God, with our armies” (v10).  But the middle of the psalm, between expressions of despair, affirms the truth. God claims His people as His own: “Gilead is mine; Manesseh is Mine … Judah is my scepter” (v7). He won’t abandon His beloved.

Sin (our own or others') causes us to experience hardship (v3).  But in the end, “through God we shall do valiantly” (v12).