Psalm 108–110

PSALM 108

A Song. A Psalm of David.

¹My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast!

I will sing and make melody!

Awake, my soul!

²Awake, O harp and lyre!

I will awake the dawn!

³I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the peoples,

I will sing praises to thee among the nations.

⁴For thy steadfast love is great above the heavens,

thy faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

⁵Be exalted, O God, above the heavens!

Let thy glory be over all the earth!

⁶That thy beloved may be delivered,

give help by thy right hand, and answer me!

⁷God has promised in his sanctuary:

“With exultation I will divide up Shechem,

and portion out the Vale of Succoth.

⁸Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;

Ephraim is my helmet;

Judah my scepter.

⁹Moab is my washbasin;

upon Edom I cast my shoe;

over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

¹⁰Who will bring me to the fortified city?

Who will lead me to Edom?

¹¹Hast thou not rejected us, O God?

Thou dost not go forth, O God, with our armies.

¹²O grant us help against the foe,

for vain is the help of man!

¹³With God we shall do valiantly;

it is he who will tread down our foes.

PSALM 109

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

¹Be not silent, O God of my praise!

²For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me,

speaking against me with lying tongues.

³They beset me with words of hate,

and attack me without cause.

⁴In return for my love they accuse me,

even as I make prayer for them.

⁵So they reward me evil for good,

and hatred for my love.

⁶Appoint a wicked man against him;

let an accuser bring him to trial.

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

let his prayer be counted as sin!

⁸May his days be few;

may another seize his goods!

⁹May his children be fatherless,

and his wife a widow!

¹⁰May his children wander about and beg;

may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit!

¹¹May the creditor seize all that he has;

may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!

¹²Let there be none to extend kindness to him,

nor any to pity his fatherless children!

¹³May his posterity be cut off;

may his name be blotted out in the second generation!

¹⁴May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,

and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!

¹⁵Let them be before the Lord continually;

and may his memory be cut off from the earth!

¹⁶For he did not remember to show kindness,

but pursued the poor and needy

and the brokenhearted to their death.

¹⁷He loved to curse; let curses come on him!

He did not like blessing; may it be far from him!

¹⁸He clothed himself with cursing as his coat,

may it soak into his body like water,

like oil into his bones!

¹⁹May it be like a garment which he wraps round him,

like a belt with which he daily girds himself!

²⁰May this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord,

of those who speak evil against my life!

²¹But thou, O GOD my Lord,

deal on my behalf for thy name’s sake;

because thy steadfast love is good, deliver me!

²²For I am poor and needy,

and my heart is stricken within me.

²³I am gone, like a shadow at evening;

I am shaken off like a locust.

²⁴My knees are weak through fasting;

my body has become gaunt.

²⁵I am an object of scorn to my accusers;

when they see me, they wag their heads.

²⁶Help me, O Lord my God!

Save me according to thy steadfast love!

²⁷Let them know that this is thy hand;

thou, O Lord, hast done it!

²⁸Let them curse, but do thou bless!

Let my assailants be put to shame; may thy servant be glad!

²⁹May my accusers be clothed with dishonor;

may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a mantle!

³⁰With my mouth I will give great thanks to the Lord;

I will praise him in the midst of the throng.

³¹For he stands at the right hand of the needy,

to save him from those who condemn him to death.

PSALM 110

A Psalm of David.

¹The Lord says to my lord:

“Sit at my right hand,

till I make your enemies your footstool.”

²The Lord sends forth from Zion

your mighty scepter.

Rule in the midst of your foes!

³Your people will offer themselves freely

on the day you lead your host

upon the holy mountains.

From the womb of the morning

like dew your youth will come to you.

⁴The Lord has sworn

and will not change his mind,

“You are a priest for ever

after the order of Melchizedek.”

⁵The Lord is at your right hand;

he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.

⁶He will execute judgment among the nations,

filling them with corpses;

he will shatter chiefs

over the wide earth.

⁷He will drink from the brook by the way;

therefore he will lift up his head.