1: God! you walked off and left us, kicked our defenses to bits And stalked off angry. Come back. Oh please, come back!
2: You shook earth to the foundations, ripped open huge crevasses. Heal the breaks! Everything's coming apart at the seams.
3: You made your people look doom in the face, then gave us cheap wine to drown our troubles.
4: Then you planted a flag to rally your people, an unfurled flag to look to for courage.
5: Now do something quickly, answer right now, so the one you love best is saved.
6: That's when God spoke in holy splendor, "Bursting with joy, I make a present of Shechem, I hand out Succoth Valley as a gift.
7: Gilead's in my pocket, to say nothing of Manasseh. Ephraim's my hard hat, Judah my hammer;
8: Moab's a scrub bucket, I mop the floor with Moab, Spit on Edom, rain fireworks all over Philistia."
9: Who will take me to the thick of the fight? Who'll show me the road to Edom?
10: You aren't giving up on us, are you, God? refusing to go out with our troops?
11: Give us help for the hard task; human help is worthless.
12: In God we'll do our very best; he'll flatten the opposition for good.