Psalms 108-110

Psalm 108

¹A Song, a Psalm of David. My heart is fixed, O God: I will sing, yea, I will sing psalms, even with my glory.

²Awake, lute and harp: I will wake the dawn.

³I will give thee thanks among the peoples, O Jehovah; of thee will I sing psalms among the nations:

⁴For thy loving-kindness is great above the heavens, and thy truth is unto the clouds.

⁵Be thou exalted above the heavens, O God, and thy glory above all the earth.

⁶That thy beloved ones may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.

⁷God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

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

⁹Moab is my wash-pot; upon Edom will I cast my sandal; over Philistia will I shout aloud.

¹⁰Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me unto Edom?

¹¹Wilt not thou, O God, who didst cast us off? and didst not go forth, O God, with our armies?

¹²Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.

¹³Through God we shall do valiantly; and he it is that will tread down our adversaries.

Psalm 109

¹To the chief Musician. Of David. A Psalm. O God of my praise, be not silent:

²For the mouth of the wicked man and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue,

³And with words of hatred have they encompassed me; and they fight against me without a cause.

⁴For my love they are mine adversaries; but I give myself unto prayer.

⁵And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

⁶Set a wicked man over him, and let the adversary stand at his right hand;

⁷When he shall be judged, let him go out guilty, and let his prayer become sin;

⁸Let his days be few, let another take his office;

⁹Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow;

¹⁰Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek their bread far from their desolate places;

¹¹Let the usurer cast the net over all that he hath, and let strangers despoil his labour;

¹²Let there be none to extend kindness unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children;

¹³Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out:

¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out;

¹⁵Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth:

¹⁶Because he remembered not to shew kindness, but persecuted the afflicted and needy man, and the broken in heart, to slay him.

¹⁷And he loved cursing; so let it come unto him. And he delighted not in blessing; and let it be far from him.

¹⁸And he clothed himself with cursing like his vestment; so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones;

¹⁹Let it be unto him as a garment with which he covereth himself, and for a girdle wherewith he is constantly girded.

²⁰Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

²¹But do *thou* for me, Jehovah, Lord, for thy name's sake; because thy loving-kindness is good, deliver me:

²²For I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

²³I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;

²⁴My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness;

²⁵And I am become a reproach unto them; when they look upon me they shake their heads.

²⁶Help me, Jehovah my God; save me according to thy loving-kindness:

²⁷That they may know that this is thy hand; that *thou*, Jehovah, hast done it.

²⁸Let *them* curse, but bless *thou*; when they rise up, let them be ashamed, and let thy servant rejoice.

²⁹Let mine adversaries be clothed with confusion, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle.

³⁰I will greatly celebrate Jehovah with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

³¹For he standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those that judge his soul.

Psalm 110

¹Psalm of David. Jehovah said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I put thine enemies as footstool of thy feet.

²Jehovah shall send the sceptre of thy might out of Zion: rule in the midst of thine enemies.

³Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in holy splendour: from the womb of the morning shall come to thee the dew of thy youth.

⁴Jehovah hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek.

⁵The Lord at thy right hand will smite through kings in the day of his anger.

⁶He shall judge among the nations; he shall fill all places with dead bodies; he shall smite through the head over a great country.

⁷He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore shall he lift up the head.