Judaism
Psalms 108
Text
A Song, a Psalm of David.
My heart is steadfast, O God; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises, even with my glory.
Awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake the dawn.
I will give thanks unto Thee, O LORD, among the peoples; And I will sing praises unto Thee among the nations.
For Thy mercy is great above the heavens, And Thy truth reacheth unto the skies.
Be Thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; And Thy glory be above all the earth.
That Thy beloved may be delivered, Save with Thy right hand, and answer me.
God spoke in His holiness, that I would exult; That I would divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my head; Judah is my sceptre.
Moab is my washpot; Upon Edom do I cast my shoe; Over Philistia do I cry aloud.
Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who will lead me unto Edom?
Hast not Thou cast us off, O God? And Thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts?
Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.
Through God we shall do valiantly; For He it is that will tread down our adversaries.
Text: The Holy Scriptures, Jewish Publication Society (1917), public domain, via Sefaria.
✦ Connected Across Traditions
The Golden Rule
Matthew 7:12
“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.”
Hadith (An-Nawawi 13)
“None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”
Mahabharata 5.1517
“One should never do to another what one regards as injurious to oneself.”
Dhammapada 129 (trans. Bhikkhu Sujato)
“All tremble at the rod, all fear death. Treating others like oneself, neither kill nor incite to kill.”
Divine Compassion & Mercy
Quran 1:1
“In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.”
Luke 6:36
“Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.”
Snp 1.8 (trans. Bhikkhu Sujato)
“Even as a mother would protect with her life her child, her only child, so too for all creatures unfold a boundless heart.”
Guru Granth Sahib, Ang 1
“ik oankaar sat naam: one Creator, whose Name is Truth, beyond fear and enmity.”