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What is Psalms 108 about?

A Song of David begins with a fixed heart resolved to sing and give praise, awaking the dawn to thank the LORD among the peoples because His mercy is great above the heavens. Drawing together earlier songs of the psalmist, it moves from praise to a plea that God would be exalted over all the earth and would save His people with His right hand. Trusting God's own word that He will apportion the land and subdue Edom, Moab, and Philistia, David confesses that human help is vain but that through God His people shall do valiantly. Coming among the psalms of the redeemed, this song joins confident praise to earnest prayer, resting the hope of victory not on the arm of man but on the God who treads down the enemy.

Historical backdrop

These are the songbook of a nation, sung across a thousand years of Israel's worship, from Moses in the wilderness to the exiles returned from Babylon. They were carried from the tabernacle to Solomon's temple to the second temple rebuilt under Persia, set to the lyre and the harp and the clash of cymbals in the courts of the LORD.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 108
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Psalms 108
The Church Fathers on Psalms 108

Psalms 108

Psalms Chapter 108
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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 Jehovah, among the peoples; And I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
4For thy lovingkindness 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 my 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 fortified 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 will tread down our adversaries.
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What is Psalms 108 about?

A Song of David begins with a fixed heart resolved to sing and give praise, awaking the dawn to thank the LORD among the peoples because His mercy is great above the heavens. Drawing together earlier songs of the psalmist, it moves from praise to a plea that God would be exalted over all the earth and would save His people with His right hand. Trusting God's own word that He will apportion the land and subdue Edom, Moab, and Philistia, David confesses that human help is vain but that through God His people shall do valiantly. Coming among the psalms of the redeemed, this song joins confident praise to earnest prayer, resting the hope of victory not on the arm of man but on the God who treads down the enemy.