Psalm 108–110

Psalm 108

A Song, a Psalm of David.

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.

Psalm 109

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

²For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me:

They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

³They have compassed me about also with words of hatred,

And fought against me without a cause.

⁴For my love they are my adversaries:

But I give myself unto prayer.

⁵And they have rewarded me evil for good,

And hatred for my love.

⁶Set thou a wicked man over him;

And let an adversary stand at his right hand.

⁷When he is judged, let him come forth guilty;

And let his prayer be turned into sin.

⁸Let his days be few;

And let another take his office.

⁹Let his children be fatherless,

And his wife a widow.

¹⁰Let his children be vagabonds, and beg;

And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

¹¹Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;

And let strangers make spoil of his labor.

¹²Let there be none to extend kindness unto him;

Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

¹³Let his posterity be cut off;

In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah;

And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

¹⁵Let them be before Jehovah continually,

That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

¹⁶Because he remembered not to show kindness,

But persecuted the poor and needy man,

And the broken in heart, to slay them.

¹⁷Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him;

And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

¹⁸He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment,

And it came into his inward parts like water,

And like oil into his bones.

¹⁹Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself,

And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

²⁰This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah,

And of them that speak evil against my soul.

²¹But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name’s sake:

Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;

²²For I am poor and needy,

And my heart is wounded within me.

²³I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:

I am tossed up and down as the locust.

²⁴My knees are weak through fasting;

And my flesh faileth of fatness.

²⁵I am become also a reproach unto them:

When they see me, they shake their head.

²⁶Help me, O Jehovah my God;

Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness:

²⁷That they may know that this is thy hand;

That thou, Jehovah, hast done it.

²⁸Let them curse, but bless thou:

When they arise, they shall be put to shame,

But thy servant shall rejoice.

²⁹Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor,

And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

³⁰I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth;

Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

³¹For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,

To save him from them that judge his soul.

Psalm 110

A Psalm of David.

¹Jehovah saith unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand,

Until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

²Jehovah will send forth the rod of thy strength out of Zion:

Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

³Thy people offer themselves willingly In the day of thy power, in holy array:

Out of the womb of the morning

Thou hast the dew of thy youth.

⁴Jehovah hath sworn, and will not repent:

Thou art a priest for ever

After the order of Melchizedek.

⁵The Lord at thy right hand

Will strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

⁶He will judge among the nations,

He will fill the places with dead bodies;

He will strike through the head in many countries.

⁷He will drink of the brook in the way:

Therefore will he lift up the head.