“Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.”
The description of the land being shaken and torn establishes the catastrophic nature of the defeat: the physical landscape itself has been disrupted by warfare and destruction. The request that God repair the breaches articulates the prayer for restoration not merely of political order but of the fundamental integrity of the covenant community and the land itself. The language suggests that the community has been literally and figuratively fractured by defeat. This verse intensifies the sense of totality of the disaster and appeals to God's power to restore what has been broken.
Church Fathers on Psalms 60:2
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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