Psalms 108 — NWB — Scriptura

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108A Song or Psalm of David. O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.^{Verse 2}Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.^{Verse 3}I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises to thee among the nations.^{Verse 4}For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth to the clouds.^{Verse 5}Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;^{Verse 6}That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.^{Verse 7}God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.^{Verse 8}Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver;^{Verse 9}Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.^{Verse 10}Who will bring me into the strong city: who will lead me into Edom?^{Verse 11}Wilt not thou , O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our armies?^{Verse 12}Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.^{Verse 13}Through God we shall do valiantly: for he will tread down 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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