Psalm 108

⁷My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing and make music.

⁸Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.

²¹My mouth will declare the praise of the Lord; let every creature bless His holy name forever and ever.

³³I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

¹⁵My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A song. God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.

²³When I sing praise to You my lips will shout for joy, along with my soul, which You have redeemed.

²⁴My tongue will indeed proclaim Your righteousness all day long, for those who seek my harm are disgraced and confounded.

²Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.

³⁰I will praise God’s name in song and exalt Him with thanksgiving.

²Praise the Lord with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.

⁸Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.

²²Bless the Lord, all His works in all places of His dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul!

¹A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is good to praise the Lord, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,

²to proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning and Your faithfulness at night

²²I will proclaim Your name to my brothers; I will praise You in the assembly.

²⁷All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.

¹Praise the Lord, all you nations! Extol Him, all you peoples!

¹⁴Sing for joy, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem!

²⁰At that time I will bring you in; yes, at that time I will gather you. For I will give you fame and praise among all the peoples of the earth when I restore your captives before your very eyes,” says the Lord.

⁴All the kings of the earth will give You thanks, O Lord, when they hear the words of Your mouth.

⁵They will sing of the ways of the Lord, for the glory of the Lord is great.

⁵Your loving devotion, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.

¹¹For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.

⁴But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

⁵made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

²For I have said, “Loving devotion is built up forever; in the heavens You establish Your faithfulness.”

⁵The heavens praise Your wonders, O Lord—Your faithfulness as well—in the assembly of the holy ones.

¹⁰Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.

⁵Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; may Your glory cover all the earth.

⁹So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.

¹⁰Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

¹³Let them praise the name of the Lord, for His name alone is exalted; His splendor is above the earth and the heavens.

¹⁹And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen.

¹⁰Then David blessed the Lord in the sight of all the assembly and said: “May You be blessed, O Lord, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.

¹¹Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.

¹³Be exalted, O Lord, in Your strength; we will sing and praise Your power.

²⁰In response, King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz cried out to heaven in prayer,

²¹and the Lord sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.

⁵Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.

⁶God has spoken from His sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem and apportion the Valley of Succoth.

¹²Concerning Benjamin he said: “May the beloved of the Lord rest secure in Him; God shields him all day long, and upon His shoulders he rests.”

¹²Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.

⁶to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

¹Of David. Contend with my opponents, O Lord; fight against those who fight against me.

²Take up Your shield and buckler; arise and come to my aid.

⁸Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

⁷So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

³His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

⁴Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

⁹Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell securely.

¹⁰For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

⁵So Gideon said to the men of Succoth, “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

⁶But the leaders of Succoth asked, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your possession, that we should give bread to your army?”

¹Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.

¹⁰The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.

⁵For there the thrones of judgment stand, the thrones of the house of David.

⁸The other half of Manasseh, along with the Reubenites and Gadites, had received the inheritance Moses had given them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had assigned to them:

⁹The area from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,

⁸Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ish-bosheth, moved him to Mahanaim,

⁴The Philistines gathered together and camped at Shunem, while Saul gathered all Israel and camped at Gilboa.

¹⁴So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.

⁷Now in former times in Israel, concerning the redemption or exchange of property, to make any matter legally binding a man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party, and this was a confirmation in Israel.

⁸So the kinsman-redeemer removed his sandal and said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself.”

²⁹Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

³⁰Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.

⁸“Never shall You wash my feet!” Peter told Him. Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me.”

⁸Moab is My washbasin; upon Edom I toss My sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

⁹Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

¹⁵Once again the Philistines waged war against Israel, and David and his servants went down and fought against the Philistines. But David became exhausted.

¹⁶Then Ishbi-benob, a descendant of Rapha, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels and who was bearing a new sword, resolved to kill David.

¹Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”

²Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?

³The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’

⁴Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

⁶Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand.

⁷Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.

¹For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A Miktam of David for instruction. When he fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!

⁷Concerning Edom, this is what the Lord of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

⁸Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.

¹²Now behold, God Himself is with us as our head, and His priests with their trumpets sound the battle call against you. O children of Israel, do not fight against the Lord, the God of your fathers, for you will not succeed.”

⁹But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.

¹⁵And he said, “Listen, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Listen, King Jehoshaphat! This is what the Lord says: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army, for the battle does not belong to you, but to God.

¹Now the Philistines brought all their forces together at Aphek, while Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel.

²As the Philistine leaders marched out with their units of hundreds and thousands, David and his men marched behind them with Achish.

³⁶Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”

¹¹Then Asa cried out to the Lord his God: “O Lord, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal prevail against You.”

⁵This is what the Lord says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the Lord.

⁶He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

³Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

⁴When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

¹⁷All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

³But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the Lord stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.

²²Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

³But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.

⁴For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,

⁶The Lord is on my side; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

⁷The Lord is on my side; He is my helper. Therefore I will look in triumph on those who hate me.

¹²With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.

²⁹For in You I can charge an army, and with my God I can scale a wall.

³⁰As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the Lord is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

³“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.

²⁰The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

¹⁴But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.