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In God

Psalm 108:10-13

Psalm 108:10 Who will bring me in to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
Psalm 108:11 Haven’t you, O God, excluded us? O God, you don’t deploy with our armies!
Psalm 108:12 Give to us help from distress, deliverance from Adam is empty.
Psalm 108:13 In God we do strongly, He will trample down our enemies!

IN God

After confessing that the enemies of his people are merely the furniture in God’s house (vs. 9), David now laments that God has excluded Israel. In what way? He has not deployed with their armies. Help from Adam (other nations) is empty. Israel’s only hope is in God. They will only be able to conquer their enemies and find peace from their distress if God leads them to those nations. One might expect that David would ask for God to be with his army. Instead, he asks for the armies to be “in God” (vs. 13).

LORD, we do not ask that you be with us. We ask, rather, that you give us the wisdom to be in you.