“Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?”
The return to human address, asking who will lead the people to the fortified city and who will guide them to Edom, reorients the psalm from the divine oracle back to human petition and uncertainty. The questions presuppose that human resources alone are insufficient; leadership must come from God. The reference to the fortified city suggests the seat of political and military power; the prayer is for restoration of secure governance. This verse indicates that despite the divine oracle, the people still face the task of implementation; human cooperation with divine purposes is necessary.
Church Fathers on Psalms 60:10
1. David the king was one man, but not one man he figured; sometimes to wit he figured the Church of many men consisting, extended even unto the ends of the earth: but sometimes One Man he figured, Him he figured that is Mediator of God and men, the Man Christ Jesus. 1 Timothy 2:5 In this Psalm therefore, or rather in this Psalm's title, certain victorious actions of David are spoken of:...“To the end, in behalf of those men that shall be changed unto the title's inscription,…
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