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 Melody: David’s. Fixed, is my heart, O God, I will sing and touch the strings, even mine honour.
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, O harp and lyre, I will awaken 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 thank thee among the peoples, O Yahweh, and will sing praise unto thee, among the tribes of men.
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, great, above the heavens, is thy lovingkindness, and, as far as the skies, thy faithfulness.
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, above all the earth, be thy glory.
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.”
To the end thy beloved ones may be delivered, Oh save thou 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 apportion Shechem! And, the Vale of Succoth, will I measure out;
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];
Mine, is Gilead—mine, Manasseh, but, Ephraim, is the defence of my head, Judah, is my commander’s staff;
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-bowl, Upon Edom, will I throw my shoe, Over Philistia, raise a shout of triumph.
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 conduct me to a fortified city? Who will lead me as far as 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].
Hast not thou, O God, rejected us? and wilt not go forth, O God, with our hosts.
12 [We need you to] help us when we fight against our enemies, because the help that humans can give us is worthless.
Grant us help out of distress, for, vain, is the deliverance of man:
13 [But] with you [helping us], we shall win; you will [enable us to] defeat our enemies.
In God, shall we do valiantly, He himself, therefore, shall tread down our adversaries.
