Psalms 108-110

Psalm 108

¹A Song. A Psalm. Of David. O God, my heart is fixed; I will make songs and melody, even with my glory.

²Give out your sounds, O corded instruments: the dawn will be awaking with my song.

³I will give you praise, O Lord, among the peoples; I will make melody to you among the nations.

⁴For your mercy is higher than the heavens: and your unchanging faith than the clouds.

⁵Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

⁶Let your right hand be stretched out for salvation, and give me an answer, so that your loved ones may be safe from danger.

⁷This is the word of the holy God: I will be glad; I will make Shechem a heritage, measuring out the valley of Succoth.

⁸Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;

⁹Moab is my washpot; on Edom is the resting-place of my shoe; over Philistia will I send out a glad cry.

¹⁰Who will take me into the strong town? who will be my guide into Edom?

¹¹Have you not sent us away from you, O God? and you go not out with our armies.

¹²Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.

¹³With God we will do great things; for by him will our haters be crushed underfoot.

Psalm 109

¹To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm. God of my praise, let my prayer be answered;

²For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

³Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.

⁴For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.

⁵They have put on me evil for good; hate in exchange for my love.

⁶Put an evil man over him; and let one be placed at his right hand to say evil of him.

⁷When he is judged, let the decision go against him; and may his prayer become sin.

⁸Let his life be short; let another take his position of authority.

⁹Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.

¹⁰Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

¹¹Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.

¹²Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead.

¹³Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.

¹⁴Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.

¹⁵Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

¹⁶Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.

¹⁷As he took pleasure in cursing, so let it come on him; and as he had no delight in blessing, let it be far from him.

¹⁸He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

¹⁹Let it be to him as a robe which he puts on, let it be like a band which is round him at all times.

²⁰Let this be the reward given to my haters from the Lord, and to those who say evil of my soul.

²¹But, O Lord God, give me your help, because of your name; take me out of danger, because your mercy is good.

²²For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.

²³I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

²⁴My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.

²⁵As for me, they make sport of me; shaking their heads when they see me.

²⁶Give me help, O Lord my God; in your mercy be my saviour;

²⁷So that they may see that it is the work of your hand; that you, Lord, have done it.

²⁸They may give curses but you give blessing; when they come up against me, put them to shame; but let your servant be glad.

²⁹Let my haters be clothed with shame, covering themselves with shame as with a robe.

³⁰I will give the Lord great praise with my mouth; yes, I will give praise to him among all the people.

³¹For he is ever at the right hand of the poor, to take him out of the hands of those who go after his soul.

Psalm 110

¹A Psalm. Of David. The Lord said to my lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put all those who are against you under your feet.

²The Lord will send out the rod of your strength from Zion; be king over your haters.

³Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.

⁴The Lord has made an oath, and will not take it back. You are a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek.

⁵In the day of his wrath kings will be wounded by the Lord at your right hand.

⁶He will be judge among the nations, the valleys will be full of dead bodies; the head over a great country will be wounded by him.

⁷He will take of the stream by the way; so his head will be lifted up.