Psalms 108
108
PSALM 108.
1Unto the end, a psalm for David.
2O God, be not thou silent in thy praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.
3They have spoken against with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.
4Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.
5And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.
6Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand.
7When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.
8May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.
9May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
11May the userer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.
12May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.
13May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.
14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15May they be before the lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:
16because he remembered not to show mercy,
17But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.
18And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.
19May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.
20This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.
21But thou, O Lord, do with for thy names sake: because thy mercy is sweet.
Do thou deliver me, 22for I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.
23I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.
24My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.
25And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads,
26Help me, O Lord my God; save me according to thy mercy.
27And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it.
28They will curse and thou will bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.
29Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with the their confusion as with a double cloak.
30I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him.
31Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors
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Psalms 108
108
A Prayer for Help against Enemies#Ps 108 Hebrew title: A psalm by David; a song.
(Ps 57.7–11; 60.5–12)
1I have complete confidence, O God!
I will sing and praise you!
Wake up, my soul!
2Wake up, my harp and lyre!
I will wake up the sun.
3I will thank you, O LORD, among the nations.
I will praise you among the peoples.
4Your constant love reaches above the heavens;
your faithfulness touches the skies.
5Show your greatness in the sky, O God,
and your glory over all the earth.
6Save us by your might; answer my prayer,
so that the people you love may be rescued.
7From his sanctuary#108.7 From his sanctuary; or In his holiness. God has said,
“In triumph I will divide Shechem
and distribute the Valley of Sukkoth to my people.
8Gilead is mine, and Manasseh too;
Ephraim is my helmet
and Judah my royal sceptre.
9But I will use Moab as my washbasin
and I will throw my sandals on Edom,
as a sign that I own it.
I will shout in triumph over the Philistines.”
10Who, O God, will take me into the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
11Have you really rejected us?
Aren't you going to march out with our armies?
12Help us against the enemy;
human help is worthless.
13With God on our side we will win;
he will defeat our enemies.
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