116) Psalm 108

Psalm 108 A Song or Psalm of David.

8.6.8.6 1 My heart is fix’d, Lord; I will sing, and with my glory praise.

2 Awake up psaltery and harp; myself I’ll early raise.

3 I’ll praise thee mong the people, Lord;

’mong nations sing will I:

4 For above heav’n thy mercy’s great, thy truth doth reach the sky.

5 Be thou above the heavens, Lord, exalted gloriously;

Thy glory all the earth above be lifted up on high.

6 That those who thy beloved are delivered may be, O do thou save with thy right hand, and answer give to me.

7 God in his holiness hath said, Herein I will take pleasure;

Shechem I will divide, and forth will Succoth’s valley measure.

8 Gilead I claim as mine by right;

Manasseh mine shall be;

Ephraim is of my head the strength;

Judah gives laws for me;

9 Moab’s my washing-pot; my shoe I’ll over Edom throw;

Over the land of Palestine I will in triumph go.

10 O who is he will bring me to the city fortify’d?

O who is he that to the land of Edom will me guide?

11 O God, thou who hadst cast us off, this thing wilt thou not do? And wilt not thou, ev’n thou, O God, forth with our armies go?

12 Do thou from trouble give us help, for helpless is man’s aid.

13 Through God we shall do valiantly; our foes he shall down tread.

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