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Prayer for National Victory after Defeat

To the choirmaster: according to Shushan Eduth. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

60 O God, thou hast rejected us, broken our defenses;
    thou hast been angry; oh, restore us.
Thou hast made the land to quake, thou hast rent it open;
    repair its breaches, for it totters.
Thou hast made thy people suffer hard things;
    thou hast given us wine to drink that made us reel.

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