Psalm 108

A Prayer for Victory

A song. A psalm of David.

108God, my heart is steady.

I will sing and praise you with all my being.

²Wake up, harp and lyre!

I will wake up the dawn.

³Lord, I will praise you among the nations;

I will sing songs of praise about you to all the nations.

⁴Your great love reaches to the skies,

your truth to the heavens.

⁵God, you are supreme above the skies.

Let your glory be over all the earth.

⁶Answer us and save us by your power

so the people you love will be rescued.

⁷God has said from his Temple,

“When I win, I will divide Shechem

and measure off the Valley of Succoth.

⁸Gilead and Manasseh are mine.

Ephraim is like my helmet.

Judah holds my royal scepter.

⁹Moab is like my washbowl.

I throw my sandals at Edom.

I shout at Philistia.”

¹⁰Who will bring me to the strong, walled city?

Who will lead me to Edom?

¹¹God, surely you have rejected us;

you do not go out with our armies.

¹²Help us fight the enemy.

Human help is useless,

¹³but we can win with God’s help.

He will defeat our enemies.