Psalms 108:6

“That thy beloved may be delivered, etc.] From hence to the end of the psalm the words are taken out of (<196005>Psalm 60:5-12).”

“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 Psalms 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…”

“That thy: Psa 60:5-12; Deu 33:12; Sa2 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: Kg1 18:24, Kg1 18:26, Kg1 18:29, Kg1 18:36, Kg1 18:37; Ch2 32:20-22; Isa 65:24; Jer 33:3 Psalms 108:7”

“Ps. 60:7-14 forms this second half. The clause expressing the purpose with למען, as in its original, has the following הושׁיעה for its principal clause upon which it depends. Instead of ועננוּ, which one might have expected, the expression used here is וענני without any interchange of the mode of writing and of reading it; many printed copies have ועננו here also; Baer, following Norzi, correctly has וענני. Instead of ולי...לי, Psa 60:9, we here read לי...לי, 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 התרועעי in the former as infinitive: "over (עלי instead of…”