1 A Song. A Psalm. Of David. O God, my heart is fixed; I will make songs and melody, even with my glory. 2 Give out your sounds, O corded instruments: the dawn will be awaking with my song. 3 I will give you praise, O Lord, among the peoples; I will make melody to you among the nations. 4 For your mercy is higher than the heavens: and your unchanging faith than the clouds. 5 Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth. 6 Let your right hand be stretched out for salvation, and give me an answer, so that your loved ones may be safe from danger. 7 This is the word of the holy God: I will be glad; I will make Shechem a heritage, measuring out the valley of Succoth. 8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver; 9 Moab is my washpot; on Edom is the resting-place of my shoe; over Philistia will I send out a glad cry. 10 Who will take me into the strong town? who will be my guide into Edom? 11 Have you not sent us away from you, O God? and you go not out with our armies. 12 Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man. 13 With God we will do great things; for by him will our haters be crushed underfoot.
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Psalm 108 Bible in Basic English
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (13)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 57:7–11; Psalms 145:21–146:2; Psalm 104:33; Psalm 71:15; Psalm 68:1
- 2 Psalm 81:2; Psalm 69:30; Psalm 33:2; Psalm 57:8; Psalm 103:22
- 3 Psalm 22:22; Psalm 22:27; Psalm 117:1; Zephaniah 3:14; Zephaniah 3:20
- 4 Psalm 36:5; Psalm 103:11; Ephesians 2:4–7; Psalm 89:2; Psalm 89:5
- 5 Psalm 57:5; Matthew 6:9–10; Psalm 148:13; Psalm 72:19; 1 Chronicles 29:10–13
- 6 2 Chronicles 32:20–22; Psalm 60:5–12; Deuteronomy 33:12; Colossians 3:12; Ephesians 1:6
- 7 1 Peter 1:8; Joshua 20:7; 2 Peter 1:3–4; Psalm 16:9–11; Judges 8:5–6
- 8 Genesis 49:10; Psalm 122:5; Joshua 13:8–11; 2 Samuel 2:8; 1 Samuel 28:4
- 9 John 13:14; Ruth 4:7–8; Isaiah 14:29–32; John 13:8; Psalm 60:8–10
- 10 Isaiah 63:1–6; Obadiah 3–4; Psalm 20:6–8; Psalm 60:1; Jeremiah 49:7–16
- 11 2 Chronicles 13:12; Psalm 44:9; 2 Chronicles 20:15; 1 Samuel 29:1–11; 1 Samuel 17:36
- 12 Jeremiah 17:5–8; Psalm 146:3–5; Lamentations 4:17; Isaiah 31:3; Isaiah 2:22
- 13 Psalm 118:6–13; Psalm 60:12; Psalm 18:29–34; Isaiah 63:3; Romans 16:20
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
This Psalm commendeth unto us the mercies of God, proved in ourselves, and is therefore the sweeter to the experienced. And it is a wonder if it can be pleasing to any one, except to him who has learned in his own case, what he hears in this Psalm.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
To this it is that the prediction pointed, "Be Thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and Thy glory above all the earth." Such is the fullness of the Gentiles, of which the apostle saith, "Blindness in part is happened to Israel, till the fullness of the Gentiles come in."
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
His true glory, therefore, in the Catholic Church is celebrated in these words by the prophet: "Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; and Thy glory above all the earth." Accordingly, that after His exaltation the Holy Spirit was to come, and to glorify Him, the sacred psalm, and the Only-begotten Himself, promised as an event of the future, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)