Chapter CVII · Location 107 of 150
Chapter 107 · Open to readFrom Psalms · Douay–Rheims / Challoner (1749–1752)
What does Psalms Chapter 107 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?
Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary
Ready heart and future early praise precede requested delivery. Moab is pot of hope and aliens have become friends in this edition. Strong-city questions and future might supply no documented campaign outcome.
Chapter breakdown
Paratum cor meum is the incipit; the heading names praise for received benefits and the inscription a canticle's psalm for David. He twice declares ready heart, says he will sing and praise with glory, calls glory, psaltery and harp to rise and will rise early. He will praise among people and sing among nations because mercy exceeds heavens and truth reaches clouds. He asks exaltation above heavens and glory over earth that beloved may be delivered, asking right-hand saving and hearing.
God has spoken in holiness, followed by first-person future rejoicing, dividing Sichem and measuring tabernacles' vale. Galaad and Manasses are mine, Ephraim head's protection and Juda king; Moab is pot of hope, shoe shall stretch over Edom and aliens have become friends. Washbasin, lawgiver and Philistia are not imported from elsewhere.
Questions ask who brings into strong city and leads into Edom and whether God who cast them off will go with armies. They do not document an impregnable mountainous fortress or recent dated campaign. A request seeks help from trouble, declaring man's help vain; through God they shall do mightily and He will bring enemies to nothing. The attributed declaration is not generalized into condemnation of every human alliance or a completed victory.
The story inside
Opening: Ready heart and future early praise precede requested delivery. Development: Moab is pot of hope and aliens have become friends in this edition. Conclusion: Strong-city questions and future might supply no documented campaign outcome.
Lessons worth keeping
- 1Ready heart and future early praise precede requested delivery.
- 2Moab is pot of hope and aliens have become friends in this edition.
- 3Strong-city questions and future might supply no documented campaign outcome.
Test your recall
Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?
Source edition and notes
Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.
Lines 64778–64779
My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and will give praise, with my glory.
Lines 64787–64788
For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth even unto the clouds.
Lines 64793–64794
That thy beloved may be delivered. Save with thy right hand and hear me.
Lines 64796–64797
God hath spoken in his holiness. I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem and I will mete out the vale of tabernacles.
Lines 64811–64811
O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Lines 64813–64814
Through God we shall do mightily: and he will bring our enemies to nothing.
