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.
English Revised Version
Psalms 108
1My 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 LORD, among the peoples: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations. 4For thy mercy 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 mine 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 fenced 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 shall tread down our adversaries.
English Revised Version (1885). Public domain. The 1881/1885 British revision of the King James Version; parent of the ASV.