A Song, a Psalm of David.
My heart is fixed, O God;
I will sing, yea, I will sing praises, even with my glory.
Awake, psaltery and harp:
I myself will {Or, awake the dawn}awake right early.
I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah, among the peoples;
And I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
For thy lovingkindness is great above the heavens;
And thy truth reacheth unto the skies.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens,
And thy glory above all the earth.
That thy beloved may be delivered,
Save with thy right hand, and answer {Another reading is, me.}us.
God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult;
I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim also is the defence of my head;
Judah is my {Or, lawgiver}sceptre.
Moab is my washpot;
{Or, Unto}Upon Edom will I cast my shoe;
Over Philistia will I shout.
Who will bring me into the fortified city?
Who {Or, will lead me &c.}hath led me unto Edom?
{Or, Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off, And goest…hosts?}Hast not thou cast us off, O God?
And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts.
Give us help against the adversary;
For vain is the {Hebrew: salvation.}help of man.
Through God we shall do valiantly:
For he it is that will tread down our adversaries.
Querverweise zu Psalm 108,4 Ps 108,4
Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, is in the heavens;Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the skies.
Mercy and truth are met together;Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever;Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.
And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah;Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
For as the heavens are high above the earth,So great is his lovingkindness toward them that fear him.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in lovingkindness.
He will again have compassion upon us; he will {Or, subdue our iniquities}tread our iniquities under foot; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
{Or, Thou wilt show thy faithfulness &c.}Thou wilt {Hebrew: give.}perform the truth to Jacob, and the lovingkindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together {Some ancient authorities read in Christ.}with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),
and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus:
that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus: