Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 108:6
That thy beloved may be delivered: save [with] thy right hand, and answer me.
6. The A.V. places a semicolon at the end of Psa 108:5, but here, as in Psa 60:5, it is best to take the clause That thy beloved ones may be delivered as dependent on the next clause Save &c. Thy beloved ones are the Israelites. Cp. Deu 33:12; Jer 11:15.
save with thy right hand ] Give victory. Cp. Psa 108:12 b; Psa 44:3.
answer me ] So the best text here, supported by all the Versions. This reading suits the singular of Psa 108:1-5 better than save us, which is found in some MSS and adopted by R.V.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
6 13. Prayer for help, based upon God’s promise to give Israel possession of Canaan, and supremacy over the surrounding nations (6 9): with an expression of confidence that God, Who alone can help, will surely give His people the victory (10 13).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
That thy beloved may be delivered – The word rendered beloved, and the verb rendered may be delivered, are both in the plural number, showing that it is not an individual that is referred to, but that the people of God are intended. This is taken without any alteration from Psa 60:5. In that psalm the prayer for deliverance is grounded on the afflictions of the people, and the fact that God had given them a banner that it might be displayed because of the truth, – or, in the cause of truth. See the notes at that psalm. In the psalm before us, while the prayer for deliverance is the same, the reason for that prayer is different. It is that God is exalted; that his mercy is above the heavens; that his glory is above all the earth, and that he is thus exalted that he may interpose and save his people.
Save with thy right hand, and answer me – The Hebrew here is the same as in Psa 60:5, where it is rendered and hear me.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
That thy beloved may be delivered,…. From hence to the end of the psalm the words are taken out of Ps 60:5.
[See comments on Ps 60:5].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Ps. 60:7-14 forms this second half. The clause expressing the purpose with , as in its original, has the following for its principal clause upon which it depends. Instead of , which one might have expected, the expression used here is without any interchange of the mode of writing and of reading it; many printed copies have here also; Baer, following Norzi, correctly has . Instead of … , Psa 60:9, we here read … , which is less soaring. And instead of Cry aloud concerning me, O Philistia do I shout for joy (the triumphant cry of the victor); in accordance with which Hupfeld wishes to take in the former as infinitive: “over ( instead of ) Philistia is my shouting for joy” ( instead of , since the infinitive does not admit of this pausal form of the imperative). For we have here the more usual form of expression . Psa 108:12 is weakened by the omission of the ( ).
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
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6 That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me. 7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. 8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver; 9 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph. 10 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? 11 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts? 12 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. 13 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
We may here learn how to pray as well as praise. 1. We must be public-spirited in prayer, and bear upon our hearts, at the throne of grace, the concerns of the church of God, v. 6. It is God’s beloved, and therefore must be ours; and therefore we must pray for its deliverance, and reckon that we are answered if God grant what we ask for his church, though he delay to give us what we ask for ourselves. “Save thy church, and thou answerest me; I have what I would have.” Let the earth be filled with God’s glory, and the prayers of David are ended (Psa 72:19; Psa 72:20); he desires no more. 2. We must, in prayer, act faith upon the power and promise of God–upon his power (Save with thy right hand, which is mighty to save), and upon his promise: God has spoken in his holiness, in his holy word, to which he has sworn by his holiness, and therefore I will rejoice, v. 7. What he has promised he will perform, for it is the word both of his truth and of his power. An active faith can rejoice in what God has said, though it be not yet done; for with him saying and doing are not two things, whatever they are with us. 3. We must, in prayer, take the comfort of what God has secured to us and settled upon us, though we are not yet put in possession of it. God had promised David to give him, (1.) The hearts of his subjects; and therefore he surveys the several parts of the country as his own already: “Shechem and Succoth, Gilead and Manasseh, Ephraim and Judah, are all my own,” v. 8. With such assurance as this we may speak of the performance of what God has promised to the Son of David; he will, without fail, give him the heathen for his inheritance and the utmost parts of the earth for his possession, for so has he spoken in his holiness; nay, of all the particular persons that were given him he will lose none; he also, as David, shall have the hearts of his subjects, John vi. 37. And, (2.) The necks of his enemies. These are promised, and therefore David looks upon Moab, and Edom, and Philistia, as his own already (v. 9): Over Philistia will I triumph, which explains Ps. lx. 8, Philistia, triumph thou because of me, which some think should be read, O my soul! triumph thou over Philistia. Thus the exalted Redeemer is set down at God’s right hand, in a full assurance that all his enemies shall in due time be made his footstool, though all things are not yet put under him, Heb. ii. 8. 4. We must take encouragement from the beginnings of mercy to pray and hope for the perfecting of it (Psa 108:10; Psa 108:11): “Who will bring me into the strong cities that are yet unconquered? Who will make me master of the country of Edom, which is yet unsubdued?” The question was probably to be debated in his privy council, or a council of war, what methods they should take to subdue the Edomites and to reduce that country; but he brings it into his prayers, and leaves it in God’s hands: Wilt not thou, O God? Certainly thou wilt. It is probable that he spoke with the more assurance concerning the conquest of Edom because of the ancient oracle concerning Jacob and Esau, that the elder should serve the younger, and the blessing of Jacob, by which he was made Esau’s lord, Gen. xxvii. 37. 5. We must not be discouraged in prayer, nor beaten off from our hold of God, though Providence has in some instances frowned upon us: “Though thou hast cast us off, yet thou wilt now go forth with our hosts, v. 11. Thou wilt comfort us again after the time that thou hast afflicted us.” Adverse events are sometimes intended for the trial of the constancy of our faith and prayer, which we ought to persevere in whatever difficulties we meet with, and not to faint. 6. We must seek help from God, renouncing all confidence in the creature (v. 12): “Lord, give us help from trouble, prosper our designs, and defeat the designs of our enemies against us.” It is not unseasonable to talk of trouble at the same time that we talk of triumphs, especially when it is to quicken prayer for help from heaven; and it is a good plea, Vain is the help of man. “It is really so, and therefore we are undone if thou do not help us; we apprehend it to be so, and therefore depend upon thee for help and have the more reason to expect it.” 7. We must depend entirely upon the favour and grace of God, both for strength and success in our work and warfare, v. 13. (1.) We must do our part, but we can do nothing of ourselves; it is only through God that we shall do valiantly. Blessed Paul will own that even he can do nothing, nothing to purpose, but through Christ strengthening him, Phil. iv. 13. (2.) When we have acquitted ourselves ever so well, yet we cannot speed by any merit or might of our own; it is God himself that treads down our enemies, else we with all our valour cannot do it. Whatever we do, whatever we gain, God must have all the glory.
Fuente: Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary
beloved = beloved ones (plural)
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Psa 108:6-13 are identical with Psa 60:5-12.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
That thy: Psa 60:5-12, Deu 33:12, 2Sa 12:25, Mat 3:17, Mat 17:5, Rom 1:7, Eph 1:6, Col 3:12
save: Psa 35:1-3, Psa 54:1, Psa 98:1, Psa 98:2, Psa 144:5-7, Exo 15:6, Isa 51:2-11
and answer me: 1Ki 18:24, 1Ki 18:26, 1Ki 18:29, 1Ki 18:36, 1Ki 18:37, 2Ch 32:20-22, Isa 65:24, Jer 33:3
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
108:6 That thy beloved may be delivered: {d} save [with] thy right hand, and answer me.
(d) When God by his benefits makes us partakers of his mercies, he admonishes us to be earnest in prayer, to desire him to continue and finish his graces.