Psalms 108
1 God, I am (very confident/trusting completely) [IDM] in you. I will sing to praise [you]. with all my inner being.
A Song, a Psalm of David. My heart is fixed, O God: I will sing, yea, I will sing psalms, even [with] my glory.
2 I will arise before the sun rises, and I will [praise you while I play] my [big] harp and my (lyre/small harp).
Awake, lute and harp: I will wake the dawn.
3 [I prayed], “Yahweh, I will thank you among [all] the people-groups; I will sing to praise you among the nations,
I will give thee thanks among the peoples, O Jehovah; of thee will I sing psalms among the nations:
4 because your faithful love for us reaches up to the heavens, and your faithfully doing what you promise [is as great as the distance] up to the clouds.
For thy loving-kindness is great above the heavens, and thy truth is unto the clouds.
5 Yahweh, [show] in the heavens that you are very great! And [show] your glory [to people] all over the earth!
Be thou exalted above the heavens, O God, and thy glory above all the earth.
6 Answer our [prayers] and by your power help us [MTY] [to defeat our enemies] in order that we, the people whom you love, may be saved/rescued.”
That thy beloved ones may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.
7 And [Yahweh answered our prayers and] spoke from his temple, saying, “Because I have conquered [your enemies], I will joyfully [everything in] [city] and I will distribute among my people [the valuable things] in Succoth Valley.
God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
8 The Gilead [region] is mine; the [people of the tribe of] Manasseh are mine; [the tribe of] Ephraim is [like] my war helmet, and [the tribe of Judah] is like the (scepter/stick that I hold which shows that I am the ruler) [MET];
Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;
9 the Moab [region] is [like] my washbasin [MET]; I throw my sandal in the Edom [area to show that it belongs to me]; I shout triumphantly because I have defeated [the people of] the Philistia [area].”
Moab is my wash-pot; upon Edom will I cast my sandal; over Philistia will I shout aloud.
10 [Because we want to attack the people of] Edom, (who will lead my [army triumphantly] to their [capital] city that has strong walls around it?/I want someone to lead my [army triumphantly] to their [capital] city that has strong walls around it.) [RHQ]
Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me unto Edom?
11 God, we [hope that] [RHQ] you have not abandoned us, and that you will go with us when our army marches out [to fight our enemies].
[Wilt] not [thou], O God, who didst cast us off? and didst not go forth, O God, with our armies?
12 [We need you to] help us when we fight against our enemies, because the help that humans can give us is worthless.
Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.
13 [But] with you [helping us], we shall win; you will [enable us to] defeat our enemies.
Through God we shall do valiantly; and he it is that will tread down our adversaries.
