Psalm 60:7 {59:9}
Good News Translation
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh too; Ephraim is my helmet and Judah my royal scepter.

New Revised Standard Version
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter.

Contemporary English Version
The lands of Gilead and Manasseh are mine. Ephraim is my war helmet, and Judah is the symbol of my royal power.

New American Bible
Gilead is mine, mine is Manasseh; Ephraim is the helmet for my head, Judah, my own scepter.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Galaad is mine, and Manasses is mine: and Ephraim is the strength of my head. Juda is my king:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galaad is mine, and Manasses is mine: and Ephraim is the strength of my head. Juda is my king:

Gilead

Joshua 17:1,5,6 And this lot fell to the tribe of Manasses for he is the firstborn of Joseph to Machir the firstborn of Manasses the father of Galaad, who was a warlike man, and had for possession Galaad and Basan. . . .

1 Chronicles 12:19,37 And there were some of Manasses that went over to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to fight: but he did not fight with them: because the lords of the Philistines taking counsel sent him back, saying: With the danger of our heads he will return to his master Saul. . . .

strength

Deuteronomy 33:17 His beauty as of the firstling of a bullock, his horns as the horns of a rhinoceros: with them shall he push the nations even to the ends of the earth. These are the multitudes of Ephraim and these the thousands of Manasses.

1 Samuel 28:2 And David said to Achis: Now thou shalt know what thy servant will do. And Achis said to David: And I will appoint thee to guard my life for ever.

Judah

Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.

Context
Victory Through God
6God hath spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem; and will mete out the vale of tabernacles. 7Galaad is mine, and Manasses is mine: and Ephraim is the strength of my head. Juda is my king:8Moab is the pot of my hope. Into Edom will I stretch out my shoe: to me the foreigners are made subject.…
Cross References
Genesis 49:10
The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.

Numbers 34:19
Whose names are these: Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone.

Deuteronomy 33:17
His beauty as of the firstling of a bullock, his horns as the horns of a rhinoceros: with them shall he push the nations even to the ends of the earth. These are the multitudes of Ephraim and these the thousands of Manasses.

Joshua 13:31
And half Galaad, and Astaroth, and Edrai, cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan: to the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, to one half of the children of Machir according to their kindreds.

1 Chronicles 5:2
But of the race of Juda, who was the strongest among his brethren, came the princes: but the first birthright was accounted to Joseph.)

Psalm 60:6
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