1 A song. A psalm of David. God, I have complete confidence in you! My whole being sings praises to you! 2 Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn! 3 I will thank you among the peoples, Lord, I will sing your praises among the nations. 4 For your trustworthy love reaches higher than the heavens, your faithfulness is higher than the clouds. 5 God, your greatness is above the highest heavens; and your glory is over all the earth! 6 Rescue those you love! Answer us, and save us by your power! 7 God has spoken from his Temple: “Triumphantly I divide up Shechem, and portion out the Valley of Succoth. 8 Both Gilead and Manasseh belong to me. Ephraim is my helmet, and Judah is my scepter. 9 I will treat Moab as my washbasin; I will place my sandal on Edom; I will shout in triumph over Philistia.” 10 Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who will lead me into Edom? 11 Have you rejected us, God? Won't you go out with our armies? 12 Please give us help against our enemies, for human help is worthless. 13 Our strength is in God, and he will crush our enemies.
Psalm 108 Free Bible Version
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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).
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“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)