Psalms

The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.

Author: David and others
Date: c. 1400–400 BC
Theme: Prayers and songs for every season of the life of faith.
Key verses: Psalm 23; Psalm 51; Psalm 119:105
American Standard Version

Psalms 108

1A Song, a Psalm of David. My heart is fixed, O God; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises, even with my glory. 2Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake right early. 3I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah, among the peoples; And I will sing praises unto thee among the nations. 4For thy lovingkindness is great above the heavens; And thy truth [reacheth] unto the skies. 5Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, And thy glory above all the earth. 6That thy beloved may be delivered, Save with thy right hand, and answer us. 7God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult; I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. 8Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my head; Judah is my sceptre. 9Moab is my washpot; Upon Edom will I cast my shoe; Over Philistia will I shout. 10Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who hath led me unto Edom? 11Hast not thou cast us off, O God? And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts. 12Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man. 13Through God we shall do valiantly: For he it is that will tread down our adversaries.

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