Psalms 108 — GNV — Scriptura

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108A song or Psalme of David. O God, mine heart is prepared, so is my tongue: I will sing and giue praise.^{Verse 2}Awake viole and harpe: I will awake early.^{Verse 3}I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people, and I wil sing vnto thee among the nations.^{Verse 4}For thy mercy is great aboue the heauens, and thy trueth vnto the clouds.^{Verse 5}Exalt thy self, O God, aboue the heauens, and let thy glorie be vpon all the earth,^{Verse 6}That thy beloued may be deliuered: helpe with thy right hand and heare me.^{Verse 7}God hath spoken in his holinesse: therefore I will reioyce, I shall deuide Shechem and measure the valley of Succoth.^{Verse 8}Gilead shalbe mine, and Manasseh shalbe mine: Ephraim also shalbe the strength of mine head: Iuda is my lawgiuer.^{Verse 9}Moab shalbe my washpot: ouer Edom wil I cast out my shoe: vpon Palestina wil I triumph.^{Verse 10}Who will leade mee into the strong citie? who will bring me vnto Edom?^{Verse 11}Wilt not thou, O God, which haddest forsaken vs, and diddest not goe foorth, O God, with our armies?^{Verse 12}Giue vs helpe against trouble: for vaine is the helpe of man.^{Verse 13}Through God we shall doe valiantly: for he shall treade downe our enemies.

Commentary

This first half is taken from Ps. 57:8-12. The repetition of confident is my heart in Psa 57:1-11 is here omitted; and in place of it the "my glory" of the exclamation, awake my glory, is taken up to "I will sing and will harp" as a more minute definition of the subject (vid., on Psa 3:5): He will do it, yea,his soul with all its godlike powers shall do it. Jahve in Psa 108:4 is transformed out of the Adonaj; and Waw copul. is inserted both before Psa 108:4 and Psa 108:6, contrary to Psa 57:1-11. מעל, Psa 108:5 (as in Est 3:1), would be a pleasing change for עד if Psa 108:5 followed Psa 108:5 and the definition of magnitude did not retrograde instead of heightening. Moreover Psa 36:6; Jer 51:9 (cf. על in Psa 113:4; Psa 148:13) favour עד in opposition to מעל.

Ps. 60:7-14 forms this second half. The clause expressing the purpose with למען, as in its original, has the following הושׁיעה for its principal clause upon which it depends. Instead of ועננוּ, which one might have expected, the expression used here is וענני without any interchange of the mode of writing and of reading it; many printed copies have ועננו here also; Baer, following Norzi, correctly has וענני. Instead of ולי...לי, Psa 60:9, we here read לי...לי, which is less soaring. And instead of Cry aloud concerning me, O Philistia do I shout for joy (the triumphant cry of the victor); in accordance with which Hupfeld wishes to take התרועעי in the former as infinitive: "over (עלי instead of עלי) Philistia is my shouting for joy" (התרועעי instead of התרועעי, since the infinitive does not admit of this pausal form of the imperative). For עיר מצור we have here the more usual form of expression עיר מבצר. Psa 108:12 is weakened by the omission of the אתּה (הלא).

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