Psalms 108

1 A Canticle Psalm, of David himself. My heart is prepared, O God, my heart is prepared. I will sing songs, and I will sing psalms in my glory.

A song. A psalm of David. My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast. I would sing, I would make music; awake, my soul.

2 Rise up, my glory. Rise up, Psalter and harp. I will arise in early morning.

Awake, harp and lyre; I would wake the dawn.

3 I will confess to you, O Lord, among the peoples. And I will sing psalms to you among the nations.

I would praise you among the peoples, O Lord; make music among the nations to you.

4 For your mercy is great, beyond the heavens, and your truth, even to the clouds.

For great to heaven is your love, and your faithfulness to the clouds.

5 Be exalted, O God, beyond the heavens, and your glory, beyond all the earth,

Be exalted, O God, o’er the heavens, and your glory o’er all the earth.

6 so that your beloved may be freed. Save with your right hand, and heed me.

So those you love may be rescued, save by your right hand and answer us.

7 God has spoken in his holiness. I will exult, and I will divide Shechem, and I will divide by measure the steep valley of tabernacles.

God did solemnly swear: “As victor will I divide Shechem, portion out the valley of Succoth.

8 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the supporter of my head. Judah is my king.

Mine is Gilead, mine is Manasseh, Ephraim is my helmet, Judah my sceptre of rule,

9 Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. I will extend my shoe in Idumea; the foreigners have become my friends.

Moab the pot that I wash in, on Edom I hurl my sandal, I shout o’er Philistia in triumph.”

10 Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will lead me, even into Idumea?

O to be brought to the fortified city! O to be led into Edom!

11 Will not you, O God, who had rejected us? And will not you, O God, go out with our armies?

Have you not spurned us, O God? You do not march forth with our armies.

12 Grant us help from tribulation, for vain is the help of man.

Grant us help from the foe, for human help is worthless.

13 In God, we will act virtuously, and he will bring our enemies to nothing.

With God we shall yet do bravely, he himself will tread down our foes.