{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/kad/psa108.htm","path":"bib/cmt/kad/psa108.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/kad/psa108.htm","text":"Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsh, [1857-78]\nTwo Elohimic Fragments Brought Together\nThe \u05d0\u05d5\u05d3\u05da in Psa 108:4 and the whole contents of this Psalm is the echo to the \u05d4\u05d5\u05d3\u05d5\u05bc of the preceding Psalm. It is inscribed a Psalm-song by David, but only because it is compiled out of ancient Davidic materials. The fact of the absence of the \u05dc\u05de\u05e0\u05e6\u05d7 makes it natural to suppose that it is of later origin. Two Davidic Psalm-pieces in the Elohimic style are here, with trifling variations, just put together, not soldered together, and taken out of their original historical connection.\nThat a poet like David would thus compile a third out of two of his own songs (Hengstenberg) is not conceivable.\nThis first half is taken from Ps. 57:8-12. The repetition of confident is my heart in Psa 57:1-11 is here omitted; and in place of it the \"my glory\" of the exclamation, awake my glory, is taken up to \"I will sing and will harp\" as a more minute definition of the subject (vid., on Psa 3:5): He will do it, yea,his soul with all its godlike powers shall do it. Jahve in Psa 108:4 is transformed out of the Adonaj; and Waw copul. is inserted both before Psa 108:4 and Psa 108:6, contrary to Psa 57:1-11. \u05de\u05e2\u05dc, Psa 108:5 (as in Est 3:1), would be a pleasing change for \u05e2\u05d3 if Psa 108:5 followed Psa 108:5 and the definition of magnitude did not retrograde instead of heightening. Moreover Psa 36:6; Jer 51:9 (cf. \u05e2\u05dc in Psa 113:4; Psa 148:13) favour \u05e2\u05d3 in opposition to \u05de\u05e2\u05dc.\nPs. 60:7-14 forms this second half. The clause expressing the purpose with \u05dc\u05de\u05e2\u05df, as in its original, has the following \u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05c1\u05d9\u05e2\u05d4 for its principal clause upon which it depends. Instead of \u05d5\u05e2\u05e0\u05e0\u05d5\u05bc, which one might have expected, the expression used here is \u05d5\u05e2\u05e0\u05e0\u05d9 without any interchange of the mode of writing and of reading it; many printed copies have \u05d5\u05e2\u05e0\u05e0\u05d5 here also; Baer, following Norzi, correctly has \u05d5\u05e2\u05e0\u05e0\u05d9. Instead of \u05d5\u05dc\u05d9...\u05dc\u05d9, Psa 60:9, we here read \u05dc\u05d9...\u05dc\u05d9, 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 \u05d4\u05ea\u05e8\u05d5\u05e2\u05e2\u05d9 in the former as infinitive: \"over (\u05e2\u05dc\u05d9 instead of \u05e2\u05dc\u05d9) Philistia is my shouting for joy\" (\u05d4\u05ea\u05e8\u05d5\u05e2\u05e2\u05d9 instead of \u05d4\u05ea\u05e8\u05d5\u05e2\u05e2\u05d9, since the infinitive does not admit of this pausal form of the imperative). For \u05e2\u05d9\u05e8 \u05de\u05e6\u05d5\u05e8 we have here the more usual form of expression \u05e2\u05d9\u05e8 \u05de\u05d1\u05e6\u05e8. Psa 108:12 is weakened by the omission of the \u05d0\u05ea\u05bc\u05d4 (\u05d4\u05dc\u05d0).","title":"Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 108","type":"page"}