New King James Version Psalm 60:
Ellicott might be helpful:
Even today, when you visit a Japanese home, you take off your street shoes at the entrance and exchange them for indoor slippers.
A similar idea was in (NIV) Psalm 108:
What was the imagery of casting one's shoe?8 Moab is My washpot; Over Edom I will cast My shoe; Philistia, shout in triumph because of Me.”
Ellicott might be helpful:
Arabs associated shoes with foul objects.Of the "shoe," as a figure of what is vilest and most common, Dr. J. G. Wetzstein quotes many Arabic proverbs. A covering for the feet would naturally draw to it such associations.
Egyptians associated shoes with religious uncleanness.But the custom which Israel brought from Egypt (Exodus 3:3), of dropping the sandals outside the door of a temple, and even of an ordinary house, must have served still more to fasten on that article of dress, ideas of vileness and profanation.
Even today, when you visit a Japanese home, you take off your street shoes at the entrance and exchange them for indoor slippers.
A similar idea was in (NIV) Psalm 108:
It was a symbol of conquest. David conquered Edom in 2 Samuel 8:9 Moab is my washbasin, on Edom I toss my sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”
Figuratively, the Edomites became David's servants and were responsible for cleaning his dirty sandal.14 He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.