Psalm 108
The full text of Psalm 108 in the Trinity Bible Version — clear modern English, translated from the original Hebrew. Free to read.
A song. A psalm of David.
1 My heart is steadfast, O God!
I will sing and make melody with all my being!
2 Awake, O harp and lyre!
I will awake the dawn!
3 I will give thanks to you, O LORD, among the peoples;
I will sing praises to you among the nations.
4 For your steadfast love is great above the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens!
Let your glory be over all the earth!
6 That your beloved ones may be delivered,
give salvation by your right hand and answer me!
7 God has promised in his holiness:
'I will exult; I will divide up Shechem
and portion out the Valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim is my helmet;
Judah is my scepter.
9 Moab is my washbasin;
upon Edom I cast my sandal;
over Philistia I shout in triumph.'
10 Who will bring me to the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
11 Have you not rejected us, O God?
You do not go forth, O God, with our armies.
12 Oh grant us help against the foe,
for vain is the salvation of man!
13 With God we shall do valiantly;
it is he who will tread down our foes.
Translation notes (3)
- Psalm 108:2a The Hebrew a'irah shachar (אָעִירָה שָּׁחַר), 'I will awaken the dawn', reverses the expected image of dawn rousing the sleeper: the psalmist's praise begins so early that it stirs the morning itself. The instruments are the nevel, 'harp', and kinnor, 'lyre', stringed instruments whose precise forms are debated.
- Psalm 108:7a Verses 7 through 13 reproduce Psalm 60:5-12, just as the opening of this psalm draws on Psalm 57; Psalm 108 is a composite of the two earlier poems. The Hebrew beqodsho, 'in his holiness', may also be read 'in his sanctuary', since qodesh (קדש) denotes both the divine attribute and the holy place from which the oracle is spoken.
- Psalm 108:9a Casting a sandal upon land was a gesture of claiming possession, as the sandal figures in ancient Israelite property transactions (compare Ruth 4:7). Moab as a washbasin, Hebrew sir rachtsi, literally 'pot of my washing', reduces the nation to a menial vessel. The verse repeats Psalm 60:8, this psalm being composed from portions of Psalms 57 and 60.
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