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Psalms 108:13
With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses God and the gathered community immediately after declaring that human assistance is worthless, shifting from petition to declaration.
The words — The Hebrew terms חָ֑יִל (cha.yil, "strength" or "valor") and יָב֥וּס (ya.Vus, "he will tread down") frame the verse's core claim of collective action and divine victory.
The thread — The identical declaration appears in Psalms 60:12, while Psalms 118:6 and Psalms 18:29 reinforce the same pattern of trusting God for protection and empowerment against opposition.
Why it lands — The text directs the reader to act in reliance on divine strength and to expect that God alone will defeat hostile forces.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Cross-references
- Psalms 118:6 The LORD is on my side; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
- Psalms 60:12 With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.
- Psalms 18:29 For in You I can charge an army, and with my God I can scale a wall.
- Isaiah 63:3 “I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
- Romans 16:20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- 2 Corinthians 2:14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.
- Psalms 18:42 I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.
- Psalms 144:1 Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
- Judges 15:8 And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
- 2 Chronicles 20:12 Our God, will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this vast army that comes against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.”