Psalms 108:10

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?

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יֹ֭בִלֵנִי

yâbal

H2986

“to bring · me”

Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular

Appears 18× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Job 10:19

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 835

to bring, lead, carry, conduct, bear along - (Hiphil) - to bear along, bring - to carry away, lead away - to lead, conduct - (Hophal) - to be borne along - to be borne (to the grave) - to be brought, be led, be conducted

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

8: words
7: distinct lemmas
Wisdom: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is יֹ֭בִלֵנִי to bring H2986 — appearing just 18 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יֹ֭בִלֵנִי to bring H2986 occurs in 18 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
3 nouns
1 preposition
2 particles

Verb forms

יֹ֭בִלֵנִי Hiphil · Imperfect
נָחַ֣נִי Qal · Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

מִ֣י who H4310 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 15 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 8 Hebrew tokens and 15 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Psalms 108:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Isaiah 63:1–6 Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Psalms 20:6–8 Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, With the saving strength of his right hand.
Obadiah 1:3–4 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?'
Psalms 60:1 God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.
Jeremiah 49:7–16 Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

You’re reading Greek Psalm 107 (Hebrew Psalm 108). The Septuagint counts the superscription, so verse numbers can differ from the Hebrew — chapter-level alignment, not verse-by-verse. Numbering follows Rahlfs.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Psalms 108:10 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

מִ֣י יֹ֭בִלֵנִי עִ֣יר מִבְצָ֑ר מִ֖י נָחַ֣נִי עַד אֱדֽוֹם

Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?

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Greek LXX Greek Psalm 107:10 Septuagint · lemma form

μωαβ λέβης ὁ ἐλπίς ἐγώ ἐπί ὁ ιδουμαία ἐκτείνω ὁ ὑπόδημα ἐγώ ἐγώ ἀλλόφυλος ὑποτάσσω

Who will bring me into the fortified city? or who will guide me to Idumea?

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on Psalms 108:10 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

J. A. Alexander on Psalms

Joseph Addison Alexander

11. (Psa 108:10) Who will bring me (to) the fortified city! Who leads (or has led) me up to Edom? See above, on Psa 60:9. The only variation is the change of one synonymous word for another, to express the idea of a fortified city.

Joseph Addison Alexander, The Psalms Translated and Explained (1850) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 10. The strong city] The possession of the metropolis is a sure proof of the subjugation of the country.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

10. into the strong city] Into the fortified city, a different word from that in Psa_60:9, though with similar meaning. Probably Sela or Petra, the capital of Edom, famous for its inaccessibility (Oba_1:3), was meant in the original Psalm.

who will lead me into Edom?] The verb is in the perfect tense, and the R.V. renders, Who hath led me into Edom? But such a reference to some previous successful invasion does not suit the context. The Ancient Versions all render by the future, and the perfect is sometimes used in questions in Hebrew to express difficulty or hopelessness. ‘Who,’ it implies, ‘could lead me right into (the preposition is emphatic) Edom? The obstacles are apparently insuperable.’ See Driver, Tenses, § 19.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who will bring me ... - This is taken, without alteration, from Psa 60:9.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

This he repeats in this place, either because, though the enemies were defeated and subdued, yet there was some strong city or cities which were not yet taken; or in way of thankful commemoration of God’s goodness in answering his former requests, as if he had said, I remember this day, to thy glory and my own comfort, my former straits and dangers, which made mile cry out, Who will bring me, &c.?

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Treasury of David

Charles H. Spurgeon

Ver. 10. Faith leads on to strong desire for the realization of the promise, and hence the practical question,

Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? The difficulty is plainly perceived. Petra is strong and hard to enter: the Psalmist warrior knows that he cannot enter the city by his own power, and he therefore asks who is to help him. He asks of the right person, even of his Lord, who has all men at his beck, and can say to this man, "show my servant the road", and he will show it, or to this band, "cut your way into the rock city", and they will assuredly do it. Of Edom it is written by Obadiah", The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, who shall bring me down to the ground? Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord." David looked for his conquest to Jehovah's infinite power and he looked not in vain.

Ver. 10. The strong city built on the rock, even man's hardened heart, stronger and more stony than the tomb, he had conquered and overcome; and in him and his might are his people to carry on his warfare, and to cast down all the strongholds of human pride, and human stubbornness, and human unrepentance. Plain Commentary.

Ver. 10-11. It is not conclusive evidence that we are not called to undertake a given work or perform a certain duty, because it is very difficult, or even impossible for us to succeed without special help from God. If God calls David to take Petra, he shall take Petra. William S. Plumer.

Psalms 108:11*

Charles H. Spurgeon's The Treasury of David (1869–1885) — public domain. Psalms only. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Who will bring me into the strong city? A slight change occurs here, rxbm taking the place of rwxm, but there is no difference in the sense. Who will lead me into Edom? Identical with the last clause of Psa_60:9.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

Moab is my washbasin i.e., my slaves and my servants, like a utensil that people use.

on Edom I shall cast my servitude, that their kings should put my shoes on my feet.

I shall shout I shall raise my voice to them to frighten them.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Psalms, in the Wisdom, opens this verse with 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yâbal (“to bring”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word yâbal carries the sense “to bring.” How does it shape the verse?
Job 10:19 shares the word «to bring» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“who” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
The verb «יֹ֭בִלֵנִי» is Hiphil Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how J. A. Alexander on Psalms and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 15 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
“who” occurs 2× in this single verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.