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PSALM 108
THE ARGUMENT
This Psalm is almost word for word taken out of two foregoing Psalms, the first five verses out of Psa_57:7-11, and the rest out of Psa_60:5, &c., to which the reader must resort for the explication of it. This only is observable, that the psalmist designing to take the body of this Psalm out of Psa 60, doth industriously lay aside that mournful preface, Psa_60:1-4, and borrows one more pleasant out of Psa 57. The reason of which change is supposed to be this, that Psa 60 was composed in the time of his danger and distress, and the latter after his deliverance.
David rouseth up himself to praise the Lord, Psa_108:1-4; praying also for assistance, being fully assured of it, against his enemies, Psa_108:5-13.
Either,
1. With my heart or soul, which is fixed for that work, as he said in the former branch. Or rather,
2. With my tongue, which is called a man’s glory, Psa_16:9, compared with Act_2:26. So the first branch describes the fixedness of his heart, to which this adds the expressions of his mouth.