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Psalms 108
1.O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
2.Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
3.I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
4.For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
5.Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;
6.That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.
7.God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
8.Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
9.Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.
10.Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
11.Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
12.Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
13.Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Asked of Guide
Why does the psalmist shift from personal praise to military victory and asking God to lead into battle?
The psalm opens with fixed devotion—“O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing”—then moves to petition for deliverance and victory for “thy beloved.” The speaker links worship and warfare: praise expresses trust, and that trust grounds the plea for God to “save with thy right hand” and to lead into the strong city.
Verses 7–13 list territorial claims and military images—Shechem, Gilead, Ephraim, Moab, Edom—to assert confidence that God’s holiness brings concrete triumph. This pattern matches other royal psalms like Psalm 108’s close kin Psalm 60, where liturgy and royal military ambition meet in an appeal for divine aid.
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