Day 144 - Psalm 108-110

Psalm 108

A song. A psalm of David.

¹ My heart is steadfast, O God;
I will sing and make music with all my soul.

² Awake, harp and lyre!
I will awaken the dawn.

³ I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations;
I will sing of you among the peoples.

⁴ For great is your love, higher than the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

⁵ Be exalted, O God, above the heavens,
and let your glory be over all the earth.

⁶ Save us and help us with your right hand,
that those you love may be delivered.

⁷ God has spoken from his sanctuary:
"In triumph I will parcel out Shechem
and measure off the Valley of Succoth.

⁸ Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim is my helmet,
Judah my scepter.

⁹ Moab is my washbasin,
upon Edom I toss my sandal;
over Philistia I shout in triumph."

¹⁰ Who will bring me to the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?

¹¹ Is it not you, O God, you who have rejected us
and no longer go out with our armies?

¹² Give us aid against the enemy,
for the help of man is worthless.

¹³ With God we will gain the victory,
and he will trample down our enemies.

Psalm 109

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

¹ O God, whom I praise,
do not remain silent,

² for wicked and deceitful men
have opened their mouths against me;
they have spoken against me with lying tongues.

³ With words of hatred they surround me;
they attack me without cause.

⁴ In return for my friendship they accuse me,
but I am a man of prayer.

⁵ They repay me evil for good,
and hatred for my friendship.

⁶ Appoint ^a]">[a] an evil man ^b]">[b] to oppose him;
let an accuser ^c]">[c] stand at his right hand.

⁷ When he is tried, let him be found guilty,
and may his prayers condemn him.

⁸ May his days be few;
may another take his place of leadership.

⁹ May his children be fatherless
and his wife a widow.

¹⁰ May his children be wandering beggars;
may they be driven ^d]">[d] from their ruined homes.

¹¹ May a creditor seize all he has;
may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

¹² May no one extend kindness to him
or take pity on his fatherless children.

¹³ May his descendants be cut off,
their names blotted out from the next generation.

¹⁴ May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD;
may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

¹⁵ May their sins always remain before the LORD,
that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

¹⁶ For he never thought of doing a kindness,
but hounded to death the poor
and the needy and the brokenhearted.

¹⁷ He loved to pronounce a curse—
may it ^e]">[e] come on him;
he found no pleasure in blessing—
may it be ^f]">[f] far from him.

¹⁸ He wore cursing as his garment;
it entered into his body like water,
into his bones like oil.

¹⁹ May it be like a cloak wrapped about him,
like a belt tied forever around him.

²⁰ May this be the LORD's payment to my accusers,
to those who speak evil of me.

²¹ But you, O Sovereign LORD,
deal well with me for your name's sake;
out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.

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

²³ I fade away like an evening shadow;
I am shaken off like a locust.

²⁴ My knees give way from fasting;
my body is thin and gaunt.

²⁵ I am an object of scorn to my accusers;
when they see me, they shake their heads.

²⁶ Help me, O LORD my God;
save me in accordance with your love.

²⁷ Let them know that it is your hand,
that you, O LORD, have done it.

²⁸ They may curse, but you will bless;
when they attack they will be put to shame,
but your servant will rejoice.

²⁹ My accusers will be clothed with disgrace
and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.

³⁰ With my mouth I will greatly extol the LORD;
in the great throng I will praise him.

³¹ For he stands at the right hand of the needy one,
to save his life from those who condemn him.

Psalm 110

Of David. A psalm.

¹ The LORD says to my Lord:
"Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies
a footstool for your feet."

² The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion;
you will rule in the midst of your enemies.

³ Your troops will be willing
on your day of battle.
Arrayed in holy majesty,
from the womb of the dawn
you will receive the dew of your youth. ^g]">[g]

⁴ The LORD has sworn
and will not change his mind:
"You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek."

⁵ The Lord is at your right hand;
he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.

⁶ He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead
and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.

⁷ He will drink from a brook beside the way ^h]">[h] ;
therefore he will lift up his head.

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 109:6 Or They say: "Appoint (with quotation marks at the end of verse 19)
2. Psalm 109:6 Or the Evil One
3. Psalm 109:6 Or let Satan
4. Psalm 109:10 Septuagint; Hebrew sought
5. Psalm 109:17 Or curse, / and it has
6. Psalm 109:17 Or blessing, / and it is
7. Psalm 110:3 Or / your young men will come to you like the dew
8. Psalm 110:7 Or / The One who grants succession will set him in authority