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Psalm 108 Bible study: Two psalms, one song
Psalm 108 has the end of Psalm 57 (57:7-11) and most of Psalm 60 (60:5-12) in one psalm, and its own order is the surprise: it opens with a steadfast heart, its praise leads straight into a plea (108:5-6), and it speaks of being rejected only once, as a question (108:11).
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“For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.”
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“In Psalm 108, "Let your glory be over all the earth" is followed by a prayer that God's beloved may be delivered.”
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What's really going on
Lines from two psalms
The title is "A Song. A Psalm by David" (108:1), and it says no more than that. Then come lines you may have read before, in two pieces. Psalm 108's first five verses are close to the end of Psalm 57 (Psalm 57:7-11, Psalm 108:1-5). Its last eight are close to the middle and end of Psalm 60 (Psalm 60:5-12, Psalm 108:6-13). Psalm 108 has neither Psalm 57's first six verses nor Psalm 60's first four. Here is what almost everyone misses: where the two pieces meet. In Psalm 57, "Let your glory be over all the earth" is the last line (Psalm 57:11). In Psalm 108 the same line is followed by a plea: "That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us" (Psalm 108:5-6) (tap beloved). The chapters on Psalms 57 and 60 set the shared lines side by side, word by word, and these notes don't repeat them (see Go deeper). What this chapter looks at is what Psalm 108 says in its own order.
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The Hebrew word behind it
כּוּןkunsay KOON
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "prob. be firm"; for the form here, "be set up, established, fixed". Strong's: "properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular)". After its title, "My heart is steadfast, God" (108:1) is the psalm's first line. Psalm 108 says it once, and says it first: before any plea (108:6), and before "Haven’t you rejected us, God?" (108:11). Where Psalm 57 has the line, it says it twice (Psalm 57:7), after the net and the pit of Psalm 57:6; the chapter on Psalm 57 looks at it there. The Psalms have the verb 52 times in Hebrew.
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Psalm 108 Bible study questions
- 1Psalm 108 opens "My heart is steadfast, God" (108:1) and praises God before it asks to be delivered (108:6). What would it look like for you to begin a prayer this week with praise, before your requests?
- 2The psalm prays "Be exalted, God, above the heavens!" (108:5), and later asks, "Haven’t you rejected us, God?" (108:11). How do you hold praise and a hard question together in your own prayers?
- 3"Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain. Through God, we will do valiantly" (108:12-13). Where are you leaning on help that can't carry the weight, and what would it look like to turn to God there?
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