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Psalm 107

Psalm 108 in the KJV and most English Bibles

The Fathers whose commentaries we have didn't write on this chapter, so it has the text only for now.

1

Song of a Psalm by David.

Ὠδὴ ψαλμοῦ τῷ Δαυίδ.

2

O God, my heart is ready, my heart is ready; I will sing and sing psalms with my glory.

Ἑτοίμη ἡ καρδία μου ὁ Θεὸς, ἑτοίμη ἡ καρδία μου, ᾄσομαι καὶ ψαλῶ ἐν τῇ δόξῃ μου.

3

Awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake early.

Ἐξεγέρθητι ψαλτήριον καὶ κιθάρα, ἐξεγερθήσομαι ὄρθρου.

4

I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the people; I will sing praise to thee among the Gentiles.

Ἐξομολογήσομαί σοι ἐν λαοῖς Κύριε, ψαλῶ σοι ἐν ἔθνεσιν.

5

For thy mercy is great above the heavens, And thy truth reaches to the clouds.

Ὅτι μέγα ἐπάνω τῶν οὐρανῶν τὸ ἔλεός σου, καὶ ἕως τῶν νεφελῶν ἡ ἀλήθειά σου.

6

Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; And thy glory above all the earth.

Ὑψώθητι ἐπὶ τοὺς οὐρανοὺς, ὁ Θεὸς, καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἡ δόξα σου.

7

That thy beloved ones may be delivered, Save with thy right hand, and hear me. God has spoken in his sanctuary;

Ὅπως ἂν ῥυσθῶσιν οἱ ἀγαπητοί σου, σῶσον τῇ δεξιᾷ σου, καὶ ἐπάκουσόν μου.

8

I will be exalted, and will divide Shechem, And will measure out the Valley of Tents.

Ὁ Θεὸς ἐλάλησεν ἐν τῷ ἁγίῳ αὐτοῦ, ὑψωθήσομαι καὶ διαμεριῶ Σίκιμα, καὶ τὴν κοιλάδα τῶν σκηνῶν διαμετρήσω.

9

Gilead is mine; and Manasseh is mine; And Ephraim is the help of my head; Judah is my king;

Ἐμός ἐστι Γαλαὰδ, καὶ ἐμός ἐστι Μανασσῆς, καὶ Ἐφραίμ ἀντίληψις τῆς κεφαλῆς μου· Ἰούδας βασιλεύς μου,

10

Moab is the caldron of my hope; Over Edom will I cast my sandal; The Philistines are made subject to me.

Μωὰβ λέβης τῆς ἐλπίδος μου· ἐπὶ τὴν Ἰδουμαίαν ἐπιβαλῶ τὸ ὑπόδημά μου, ἐμοὶ ἀλλόφυλοι ὑπετάγησαν.

11

Who will bring me into the fortified city? Or who will guide me to Edom?

Τίς ἀπάξει με εἰς πόλιν περιοχῆς; ἢ τίς ὁδηγήσει με ἕως τῆς Ἰδουμαίας;

12

Wilt not thou, O God, who hast rejected us? And wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?

Οὐχὶ σὺ ὁ Θεὸς ὁ ἀπωσάμενος ἡμᾶς; καὶ οὐκ ἐξελεύσῃ ὁ Θεὸς ἐν ταῖς δυνάμεσιν ἡμῶν;

13

Give us help from tribulation: For vain is the help of man.

Δὸς ἡμῖν βοήθειαν ἐκ θλίψεως, καὶ ματαία σωτηρία ἀνθρώπου.

14

Through God we shall do valiantly; And he will bring to nought our enemies.

Ἐν τῷ Θεῷ ποιήσομεν δύναμιν, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐξουδενώσει τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ἡμῶν.

About these notes

Every note is a real passage, quoted word for word from a published English translation, with its source. Nothing here is summarised or written by us. Some verses have many notes and some have none, because the Fathers wrote more on some passages than others.

  • Blessed Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms, tr. A. Cleveland Coxe from the Oxford translation, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888).
  • Scripture: the Septuagint, in the translation of Sir Lancelot Brenton (1851), with spelling updated by Adam Boyd (2020); the Greek is Brenton's Septuagint text.

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