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. Prepared is my heart, O God, I sing, yea, I sing praise, also my 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, psaltery and harp, I awake 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 thank Thee among peoples, O Jehovah, And I praise Thee 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 great above the heavens [is] Thy kindness, And unto the clouds Thy truth.
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 Thy honour.
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 us.
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 exult, I apportion Shechem, And the valley of Succoth I measure,
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 [is] Manasseh, And Ephraim [is] the strength of my head, Judah [is] my lawgiver,
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] a pot for my washing, Upon Edom I cast my shoe, Over Philistia I shout habitually.
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 doth bring me in to the fenced city? Who hath led 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].
Hast not Thou, O God, cast us off? And Thou goest not out, 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.
Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the salvation of man.
13 [But] with you [helping us], we shall win; you will [enable us to] defeat our enemies.
In God we do mightily, And He doth tread down our adversaries!
