Psalms 57:7

My heart is fixed Stedfastly resolved. Cp. Psalms 51:10; Psalms 112:7; Colossians 1:13 (ἐδραῖος is the word used by Symmaohus here). The P.B.V. has changed Coverdale's readyinto fixedhere, but retained it in Psalms 108:1, probably owing to the influence of the familiar Latin title, Paratum cor meum, at the beginning of that Psalm.

I will sing and give praise I will sing and make melody. The latter is the verb from which mismôr, -psalm," is derived. See Introd. p. xvii.