Psalms 108
1 A song. A psalm of David. My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast. I would sing, I would make music; awake, my soul.
My heart is fixed, O God, I will sing, yea, I will sing praises, even with my glory.
2 Awake, harp and lyre; I would wake the dawn.
Awake, psaltery and harp. I myself will awake right early.
3 I would praise you among the peoples, O Lord; make music among the nations to you.
I will give thanks to thee, O Jehovah, among the peoples, and I will sing praises to thee among the nations.
4 For great to heaven is your love, and your faithfulness to the clouds.
For thy loving kindness is great above the heavens, and thy truth is to the skies.
5 Be exalted, O God, o’er the heavens, and your glory o’er all the earth.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory above all the earth.
6 So those you love may be rescued, save by your right hand and answer us.
That thy beloved may be delivered, save with thy right hand, and answer us.
7 God did solemnly swear: ‘As victor will I divide Shechem, portion out the valley of Succoth.
God has spoken in his holiness. I will exult. I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
8 Mine is Gilead, mine is Manasseh, Ephraim is my helmet, Judah my sceptre of rule,
Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.
9 Moab the pot that I wash in, on Edom I hurl my sandal, I shout o’er Philistia in triumph.’
Moab is my wash pot. Upon Edom I will cast my shoe. Over Philistia I will shout.
10 O to be brought to the fortified city! O to be led into Edom!
Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?
11 Have you not spurned us, O God? You do not march forth with our armies.
Have thou not cast us off, O God? And thou go not forth, O God, with our armies.
12 Grant us help from the foe, for human help is worthless.
Give us help against the adversary, for vain is the help of man.
13 With God we shall yet do bravely, he himself will tread down our foes.
Through God we shall do valiantly, for he it is who will tread down our adversaries.
