Psalms 108
108
A Prayer for God’s Help
A poetic psalm by King David
1My heart, O God, is focused and determined.
Now I can sing my song with passionate praises!
Awake, O my soul, with the music of his splendor.
2Arise, my soul, and sing his praises!
I will awaken the dawn with my worship,
greeting the daybreak with my songs of light.
3Wherever I go, I will thank you.
All the nations will hear my praise songs to you.
4Your love is so extravagant, it reaches higher than the heavens!
Your faithfulness is so astonishing, it stretches to the skies!
5Lord God, be exalted as you soar throughout the heavens.
May your shining glory be seen high above all the earth!
6Come to your beloved ones and gently draw us out.
Answer our prayer for your saving help.
Come with your might and strength, for we need you, Lord!
7-9Then I heard the Lord speak in his holy splendor,
and from his sanctuary I heard the Lord promise:
“In my triumph I will be the one to measure out
the portion of my inheritance to my people,
and I will secure the land as I promised you.
Shechem, Succoth, Gilead, Manasseh # 108:7–9 The Hebrew includes two geographical places in the text: Shechem and Succoth. Shechem is where Jacob (Israel) first bought title to the land, paying one hundred pieces of silver for the place where he camped. Succoth is another place where Jacob temporarily camped in the Land of Promise. These two places speak of God being the one who brought them in and portioned out the land for his people. —
they are all still mine!” he says.
“Judah will continue to produce kings and lawgivers,
and Ephraim will produce great warriors.
Moab will become my lowly servant.
Edom will likewise serve my purposes.
I will lift up a shout of victory over the land of Philistia!
10But who will bring my triumph into Edom’s fortresses?” # 108:10 Edom is a variant form of the word Adam.
11Lord, have you really rejected us, refusing to fight our battles?
12Give us a father’s help when we face our enemies.
For to trust in any man is an empty hope.
13With God’s help we will prevail with might and power.
And with God’s help we’ll trample down our every foe!
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1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David.
2 O God, do not be silent toward my praise, for the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the deceitful one have been opened against me.
3 They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues, and they have surrounded me with hateful words, and they fought against me over nothing.
4 Instead of choosing to act on my behalf, they detracted me. But I gave myself to prayer.
5 And they set evil against me, instead of good, and hatred, in return for my love.
6 Establish the sinner over him, and let the devil stand at his right hand.
7 When he is judged, may he go forth in condemnation, and may his prayer be counted as sin.
8 May his days be few, and let another take his episcopate.
9 May his sons be orphans, and his wife a widow.
10 May his sons be carried by those who walk unsteadily, and may they go begging. And may they be cast out of their dwelling places.
11 May the money lenders scrutinize all his belongings, and let foreigners plunder his labors.
12 May there be no one to assist him, nor anyone to be compassionate to his orphaned children.
13 May his posterity be in utter ruin. In one generation, may his name be wiped away.
14 May the iniquity of his fathers return in memory before the sight of the Lord, and do not let the sin of his mother be wiped away.
15 May these be opposite the Lord always, but let their memory perish from the earth.
16 For certain things are not remembered about them, in order to be merciful.
17 And so the destitute man was pursued, with the beggar and the remorseful in heart, so as to be put to death.
18 And he loved a curse, and it came to him. And he was unwilling to have a blessing, and it went far from him. And he clothed himself with curses like a garment, and it entered his inner self like water, and it entered his bones like oil.
19 May it be to him like a garment that covers him, and like a belt that always cinches him.
20 This is the work of those who detract me with the Lord and who speak evils against my soul.
21 But as for you, Lord, O Lord: act on my behalf for your name's sake. For your mercy is sweet.
22 Free me, for I am destitute and poor, and my heart has been disquieted within me.
23 I have been taken away like a shadow when it declines, and I have been shaken off like locusts.
24 My knees have been weakened by fasting, and my flesh has been replaced by oil.
25 And I have become a disgrace to them. They saw me, and they shook their heads.
26 Help me, O Lord, my God. Save me according to your mercy.
27 And let them know that this is your hand, and that you, O Lord, have done this.
28 They will curse, and you will bless. May those who rise up against me be confounded. But your servant will rejoice.
29 May those who detract me be clothed with shame, and may they be covered with their confusion, as if with a double cloak.
30 I will confess exceedingly to the Lord with my mouth. And I will praise him in the midst of the multitude.
31 For he stands at the right hand of the poor, in order to save my soul from persecutors.
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