Psalms 108 — MSB — Scriptura

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108A song. A Psalm of David. My heart is steadfast, O God; I will sing and make music with all my being.^{Verse 2}Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.^{Verse 3}I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing Your praises among the peoples.^{Verse 4}For Your loving devotion extends beyond the heavens, and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.^{Verse 5}Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; may Your glory cover all the earth.^{Verse 6}Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.^{Verse 7}God has spoken from His sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem and apportion the Valley of Succoth.^{Verse 8}Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.^{Verse 9}Moab is My washbasin; upon Edom I toss My sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”^{Verse 10}Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?^{Verse 11}Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?^{Verse 12}Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.^{Verse 13}With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample 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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