Restored with God's Help - Psalm 60:1-5, 11-12

This psalm gives us information about David's reign not found in the books of first and second Samuel or first and second Chronicles. Although the settings of psalm is found in 2 Samuel 8, that passage makes no reference to the fact that David's forces had met stiff resistance (60:1-3) and apparently even a temporary defeat (60:9, 10). The closer we get to God, the more our enemies will attack us because we threaten their evil and selfish way of living.