The passage served as a fine close for one psalm, and it makes an equally noteworthy opening for another. ... Charles Spurgeon. A Song or Psalm of David. Messiah is described as a conqueror when the battle is won, and kings and nations, prostrate at his feet, await his sentence and judgment upon them. Verses 10-11.—It is not conclusive evidence that we are not called to undertake a given work or perform a certain duty, because it is very difficult, or even impossible for us to succeed without special help from God. Verse 8.—"Ephraim also is the strength of mine head." PSALM 108. Praise with excellence - with my glory. Hence the commencement of one psalm is the close of another. Abraham. Psalms 108:9 HCSB Moab is My washbasin; I throw My sandal on Edom. The casting off will not last long when faith so gloriously keeps her hold. The overall effect is to produce a psalm with a new emphasis that James Boice described as “a warriors morning psalm”. Edom cannot be entered by any human power, yet from its fastnesses the robber bands come rushing down; therefore, O Lord, do thou interpose and give thy people deliverance. Happy man, to have thus made his choice to be the Lord's musician, he retains his office as the Poet Laureate of the kingdom of heaven, and shall retain it till the crack of doom.      The fibres of my heart. Verse 3. 4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. It is true that most of the commentators have done so, and we are not so presumptuous as to dispute their wisdom; but we hold for ourselves that the words would not have been repeated if there had not been an object for so doing, and that this object could not have been answered if every hearer of it had said, "Ah, we had that before, and therefore we need not meditate upon it again." David had done so in his youth, and he is all the more sure of doing it again. Major Prophets The Gospels If well I know the tuneful art "I will praise the Lord at all times; His praise will always be on my lips. Let thy praise be according to the greatness of thy mercy. He wishes and endeavours to exalt him as high in his praises as he is in himself; to exalt him above the earth, above the heaven, … Sing about the Lord wherever you travel. III. 3. First we have an utterance dictated by the spirit of praise, Ps 108:1-5; then a second deliverance evoked by the spirit of believing prayer, Ps 108:6-12; and then a final word of resolve (Ps 108:13), as the … But, then, for its own deliverance and blessing it looks to the exalting of God. In the former they were prophetic of prosperity yet to come, and consolatory in the expectation of approaching troubles. Psalm 108:1 A Song or Psalm of David. He sat before the Lord in a wonder of joy. etc. 1-5). Historical Books Pauline Epistles Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my law-giver; Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph. we need not be discouraged if we perceive no secondary agent, for we may then fall back upon the great Promiser himself, and believe that he himself will perform his word unto us. This is written, not only to complete the parallelism of the verse, but to reaffirm his fixed resolve. III. Spurgeon's wife said that if Spurgeon had never written any other work, this would have been a permanent literary memorial. 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Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Verses 1-5.—After David has professed a purpose of praising God (Psa 108:1-3) he tells you, next, the proportion that is between the attributes which he praiseth in God, and his praise of him. For thy mercy is great above … Amen, so let it be. For his mercy endures forever." 108 O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. Verse 2.—When the Hebrew captives were sitting in sorrow "by the waters of Babylon," they wept, and hung their harps on the willows, and could not be prevailed upon by the conquerors to sing "the songs of Zion in that land" (Psa 137:1, 4). Some expressions are so admirable that they ought to be used again; who would throw away a cup because he drank from it before? Jesus the sole and only lawmaker in the church. The word νιπτήρ, used in this last passage, signifies in general a washing-pot, and is put for the word ποδόνιπτρον, the term which the Greeks, in strict propriety of speech, applied to a vessel for washing the feet. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. The two Psalms, 117th and 118th, are placed together because, though each is a distinct portion in itself, the 117th is an exordium to that which follows it, an address and an invitation to the Gentile and heathen world to acknowledge and praise Jehovah. The Whole Bible This psalm has been a challenge to many Christians for centuries. VERSE 1. (Ps. The greatness of the attributes mercy and truth we have in Psa 108:4, "Thy truth reaches unto the clouds"; and there is an answerable greatness in his praises of God for them, Psa 108:5: "Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth." PSALM 108 . 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