PSALM 108

¹A song, a David psalm.

    ²My heart is firm, O God.

          Let me sing and hymn

              with my inward being, too.

    ³Awake, O lute and lyre.

          I would waken the dawn.

    ⁴Let me acclaim You among the peoples, LORD.

          Let me hymn You among the nations.

    ⁵For Your kindness is great over the heavens,

          and Your steadfast truth to the skies.

    ⁶Loom over the heavens, O God.

          Over all the earth Your glory,

    ⁷that Your beloved ones be saved,

          rescue with Your right hand, answer me.

    ⁸God once spoke in His holiness:

          “Let Me exult and share out Shechem,

              and the valley of Succoth I shall measure.

    ⁹Mine is Gilead, Mine Manasseh,

          and Ephraim My foremost stronghold,

              Judah My scepter.

    ¹⁰Moab is My washbasin,

          upon Edom I fling My sandal,

              over Philistia I shout exultant.”

    ¹¹Who will lead me to the fortified town,

          who will guide me to Edom?

    ¹²Have You not, O God, abandoned us?

          You do not sally forth, God, with our armies.

    ¹³Give us help against the foe

          when rescue by man is in vain.

    ¹⁴Through God we shall gather strength,

          and He will stamp out our foes.