God Praised and Supplicated to Give Victory.A Song, a Psalm of David. 1My heart is steadfast, O God;
I will sing, I will sing praises, even with my soul. 2Awake, harp and lyre;
I will awaken the dawn! 3I will give thanks to You, O LORD, among the peoples,
And I will sing praises to You among the nations. 4For Your lovingkindness is great above the heavens,
And Your truth reaches to the skies. 5Be exalted, O God, above the heavens,
And Your glory above all the earth. 6That Your beloved may be delivered,
Save with Your right hand, and answer me! 7God has spoken in His holiness:
“I will exult, I will portion out Shechem
And measure out the valley of Succoth. 8“Gilead is Mine, Manasseh is Mine;
Ephraim also is the helmet of My head;
Judah is My scepter. 9“Moab is My washbowl;
Over Edom I shall throw My shoe;
Over Philistia I will shout aloud.” 10Who will bring me into the besieged city?
Who will lead me to Edom? 11Have not You Yourself, O God, rejected us?
And will You not go forth with our armies, O God? 12Oh give us help against the adversary,
For deliverance by man is in vain. 13Through God we will do valiantly,
And it is He who shall tread down our adversaries.
New American Standard Bible (©1995)
A Song, a Psalm of David. My heart is steadfast, O God; I will sing, I will sing praises, even with my soul.GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
A song; a psalm by David. My heart is confident, O God. I want to sing and make music even with my soul. King James Bible
<or Psalm of David.>> O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.Douay-Rheims Bible
A canticle of a psalm for David himself. My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and will give praise, with my glory. Darby Bible Translation
{A Song, a Psalm of David.} My heart is fixed, O God: I will sing, yea, I will sing psalms, even with my glory. English Revised Version
A Song, a Psalm Of David. My heart is fixed, O God; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises, even with my glory. Webster's Bible Translation
A Song or Psalm of David. O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. World English Bible
My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul. Young's Literal Translation
A Song, a Psalm of David. Prepared is my heart, O God, I sing, yea, I sing praise, also my honour.
Psalm 16:9 Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will dwell securely.
Psalm 18:49 Therefore I will give thanks to You among the nations, O LORD, And I will sing praises to Your name.
Psalm 30:12 That my soul may sing praise to You and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to You forever.
Psalm 57:7 My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises!
Psalm 108:2 Awake, harp and lyre; I will awaken the dawn!
Psalm 112:7 He will not fear evil tidings; His heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary PSALM 108 This psalm begins with praise and concludes with prayer, and faith is at work in both. I. David here gives thanks to God for mercies to himself (v. 1-5). II. He prays to God for mercies for the land, pleading the promises of God and putting them in suit (v. 6-13). The former part it taken out of Ps. 57:7, etc., the latter out of Ps. 60:5, etc., and both with very little variation, to teach us that we may in prayer use the same words that we have formerly used, provided it be with new affections. It intimates likewise that it is not only allowable, but sometimes convenient, to gather some verses out of one psalm and some out of another, and to put them together, to be sung to the glory of God. In singing this psalm we must give glory to God and take comfort to ourselves. A song or psalm of David. Verses 1-5 We may here learn how to praise God from the example of one who was master of the art. 1. We must praise God with fixedness of heart. Our heart must be employed in the duty (else we make nothing of it) and engaged to the duty (v. 1): O God! my heart is fixed, and then I will sing and give praise. Wandering straggling thoughts must be gathered in, and kept close to the business; for they must be told that here is work enough for them all. 2. We must praise God with freeness of expression: I will praise him with my glory, that is, with my tongue. Our tongue is our glory, and never more so than when it is employed in praising God. When the heart is inditing this good matter our tongue must be as the pen of a ready writer, Ps. 45:1. David's skill in music was his glory, it made him famous, and this should be consecrated to the praise of God; and therefore it follows, Awake my psaltery and harp. Whatever gift we excel in we must praise God with. 3. We must praise God with fervency of affection, and must stir up ourselves to do it, that it may be done in a lively manner and not carelessly (v. 2): Awake, psaltery and harp; let it not be done with a dull and sleepy tune, but let the airs be all lively. I myself will awake early to do it, with all that is within me, and all little enough. Warm devotions honour God. 4. We must praise God publicly, as those that are not ashamed to own our obligations to him and our thankful sense of his favours, but desire that others also may be in like manner affected with the divine goodness (v. 3): I will praise thee among the people of the Jews; nay, I will sing to thee among the nations of the earth. Whatever company we are in we must take all occasions to speak well of God; and we must not be shy of singing psalms, though our neighbours hear us, for it looks like being ashamed of our Master. 5. We must, in our praises, magnify the mercy and truth of God in a special manner (v. 4), mercy in promising, truth in performing. The heavens are vast, but the mercy of God is more capacious; the skies are high and bright, but the truth of God is more eminent, more illustrious. We cannot see further than the heavens and clouds; whatever we see of God's mercy and truth there is still more to be seen, more reserved to be seen, in the other world. 6. Since we find ourselves so, defective in glorifying God, we must beg of him to glorify himself, to do all, to dispose all, to his own glory, to get himself honour and make himself a name (v. 5): Be thou exalted, O God! above the heavens, higher than the angels themselves can exalt thee with their praises, and let thy glory be spread over all the earth. Father, glorify thy own name. Thou hast glorified it; glorify it again. It is to be our first petition, Hallowed be thy name. Calvin's Commentary A Song or Psalm of David. 1. My heart is prepared, O God! my heart is prepared; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. 2. Awake, psaltery and harp: I will arise at break of day. 3. I will praise thee, O Jehovah! among the people; and sing unto thee among the nations: 4. Because thy goodness is great above the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. 5. Be thou, O God! exalted above the heavens; and thy glory above all the earth: 6. That thy chosen may be set free, save me by thy right hand, and hear me. 7. God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and measure the valley of Succoth. 8. Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is the strength of my head: Judah is my lawgiver. [292] 9. Moab is the pot of my washing; over Edom I will cast my shoe; over Philistina I will triumph. 10. Who will bring me into the fortified city? who will bring me even unto Edom? 11. Wilt not thou, O God! who hadst repulsed us? and wentest not out, O God! with our armies? 12. Lord us help out of our tribulations; because the help of man is vain. 13. Through God we will do valiantly, and he shall trample under foot our enemies. Because this psalm is composed of parts taken from the fifty-seventh and sixtieth psalms, it would be superfluous to repeat, in this place, what we have already said by way of exposition in those psalms. [293] Footnotes: [292] "Ou, mon duc." -- Fr. marg. "Or, my leader." [293] "The 108th psalm is altogether made up of extracts from the others; its first part being identical (with the exceptions of a few slight variations) with the third division of the 57th; its second, with the second division of the 60th. And both these borrowed parts are discriminated, both in the 57th and 60th psalms, from the rest of the context by the word Selah. This is a remarkable fact, and illustrates strongly one of the functions of the Diapsalma. These parts were, then, to a certain degree, regarded as distinct compositions, which occasionally were disjointed from their original context; the very change of sentiment and strain, which originated the word Diapsalma, sanctioning such an occasional practice." -- Jebb's Literal Version of the Book of Psalms, with Dissertations, volume 2, page 109.
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