God Praised and Supplicated to Give Victory 1

108 My heart is steadfast, O God;
I will sing and make music with all my soul.







Psa 108:1
My heart is steadfast—The prophet saith his heart was ready, so the old translation hath it; the new translation, "My heart is steadfast." The word in the Hebrew signifies, first, ready, or prepared. Then, secondly, it signifies steadfast. We first fit, prepare a thing, sharpen it, before we drive it into the ground, and then drive it in and fix it. So ask seriously and often, that thy heart may be ready, and may also be steadfast, and this by a habit which brings readiness and fixedness, as in other holy duties, so in that of meditation.—Nathanael Ranew, in "Solitude improved by Divine Meditation", 1670.

With . . . my soul—The parallel passage in the Prayer book version is, "with the best member I have." The tongue, being considered the best member, is here described as the soul of man—as that which tends to elevate him in the scale of creation; and therefore the pious man resolves to employ his speech in giving utterance to the goodness of God. God is glorified by the music of his redeemed, and the instrument whereby it is effected is man's soul.—The Quiver.

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