Verse Lens · Context pointer
Psalms 108:7 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 7. 7God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
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Role in This Section
Psalm 108:7: Within “A fixed heart joins praise and national plea,” the line “God hath spoken in his holiness” supplies one distinct parallel claim, image, address, or response.
Read It With
- Psalms 108:1–13
Read Psalms 108:7 with 108:1–13. Read alone, “God hath spoken in his holiness” could lose the communal voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 108:1–13, the communal voice carries the movement “A fixed heart joins praise and national plea” as part of “A fixed heart joins praise and national plea.” Its hymn-lament form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.
Why It Needs Context
The line “God hath spoken in his holiness” is a premise, image, address, response, or transition inside Psalms 108:1–13; its parallel neighbors and the movement titled “A fixed heart joins praise and national plea” must supply the claim before teaching or application.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Psalms 108:1–13 — A fixed heart joins praise and national pleaSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Psalms 108:1–13, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 108:1–13
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