Mazmur 16:11

16:11 You lead me in ¹  the path of life; ² 

I experience absolute joy in your presence; ³ 

you always give me sheer delight. ⁴ 

Mazmur 17:7

17:7 Accomplish awesome, faithful deeds, ⁵ 

you who powerfully deliver those who look to you for protection from their enemies. ⁶ 

Mazmur 21:9

21:9 You burn them up like a fiery furnace ⁷  when you appear; ⁸ 

the Lord angrily devours them; ⁹ 

the fire consumes them.

Mazmur 69:9

69:9 Certainly ¹⁰  zeal for ¹¹  your house ¹²  consumes me;

I endure the insults of those who insult you. ¹³ 

Mazmur 74:11

74:11 Why do you remain inactive?

Intervene and destroy him! ¹⁴ 

Mazmur 77:11

77:11 I will remember the works of the Lord.

Yes, I will remember the amazing things you did long ago! ¹⁵ 

Mazmur 89:14

89:14 Equity and justice are the foundation of your throne. ¹⁶ 

Loyal love and faithfulness characterize your rule. ¹⁷ 

Mazmur 98:1

Psalm 98 ¹⁸ 

A psalm.

98:1 Sing to the Lord a new song, ¹⁹ 

for he performs ²⁰  amazing deeds!

His right hand and his mighty arm

accomplish deliverance. ²¹ 

Mazmur 118:15

118:15 They celebrate deliverance in the tents of the godly. ²² 

The Lord’s right hand conquers, ²³ 

Mazmur 138:7

138:7 Even when I must walk in the midst of danger, ²⁴  you revive me.

You oppose my angry enemies, ²⁵ 

and your right hand delivers me.

[16:11]  ¹ tn Heb “cause me to know”; or “cause me to experience.”

[16:11]  ² tn This is a metaphorical way of saying, “you preserve my life.” The phrase “path of life” stands in contrast to death/Sheol in Prov 2:18-19; 5:5-6; 15:24.

[16:11]  ³ tn Heb “abundance of joy [is] with your face.” The plural form of the noun שִׂמְחָה (simkhah, “joy”) occurs only here and in Ps 45:15. It may emphasize the degree of joy experienced.

[16:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “delight [is] in your right hand forever.” The plural form of the adjective נָעִים (na’im, “pleasant, delightful”) may here emphasize the degree of delight experienced (see Job 36:11).

[17:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “Set apart faithful acts.”

[17:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “[O] one who delivers those who seek shelter from the ones raising themselves up, by your right hand.” The Lord’s “right hand” here symbolizes his power to protect and deliver.

[17:7]  sn Those who look to you for protection from their enemies. “Seeking shelter” in the Lord is an idiom for seeking his protection. Seeking his protection presupposes and even demonstrates the subject’s loyalty to the Lord. In the psalms those who “take shelter” in the Lord are contrasted with the wicked and equated with those who love, fear and serve the Lord (Pss 5:11-12; 31:17-20; 34:21-22).

[21:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “you make them like a furnace of fire.” Although many modern translations retain the literal Hebrew, the statement is elliptical. The point is not that he makes them like a furnace, but like an object burned in a furnace (cf. NEB, “at your coming you shall plunge them into a fiery furnace”).

[21:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “at the time of your face.” The “face” of the king here refers to his angry presence. See Lam 4:16.

[21:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “the Lord, in his anger he swallows them, and fire devours them.” Some take “the Lord” as a vocative, in which case he is addressed in vv. 8-9a. But this makes the use of the third person in v. 9b rather awkward, though the king could be the subject (see vv. 1-7).

[69:9]  ¹⁰ tn Or “for.” This verse explains that the psalmist’s suffering is due to his allegiance to God.

[69:9]  ¹¹ tn Or “devotion to.”

[69:9]  ¹² sn God’s house, the temple, here represents by metonymy God himself.

[69:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “the insults of those who insult you fall upon me.”

[69:9]  sn Jn 2:17 applies the first half of this verse to Jesus’ ministry in the context of John’s account of Jesus cleansing the temple.

[74:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? From the midst of your chest, destroy!” The psalmist pictures God as having placed his right hand (symbolic of activity and strength) inside his robe against his chest. He prays that God would pull his hand out from under his robe and use it to destroy the enemy.

[77:11]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “yes, I will remember from old your wonders.”

[77:11]  sn The psalmist refuses to allow skepticism to win out. God has revealed himself to his people in tangible, incontrovertible ways in the past and the psalmist vows to remember the historical record as a source of hope for the future.

[89:14]  ¹⁶ sn The Lord’s throne symbolizes his kingship.

[89:14]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “are in front of your face.” The idiom can mean “confront” (Ps 17:13) or “meet, enter the presence of” (Ps 95:2).

[98:1]  ¹⁸ sn Psalm 98. The psalmist summons the whole earth to praise God because he reveals his justice and delivers Israel.

[98:1]  ¹⁹ sn A new song is appropriate because the Lord is constantly intervening in the world as its just king. See Ps 96:1.

[98:1]  ²⁰ tn The perfect verbal forms in vv. 1-3 are understood here as describing characteristic divine activities. Another option is to translate them as present perfects, “has performed…has accomplished deliverance, etc.” referring to completed actions that have continuing results.

[98:1]  ²¹ tn Heb “his right hand delivers for him and his holy arm.” The right hand and arm symbolize his power as a warrior-king (see Isa 52:10). His arm is “holy” in the sense that it is in a category of its own; God’s power is incomparable.

[118:15]  ²² tn Heb “the sound of a ringing shout and deliverance [is] in the tents of the godly.”

[118:15]  ²³ tn Heb “does valiantly.” The statement refers here to military success (see Num 24:18; 1 Sam 14:48; Pss 60:12; 108:13).

[138:7]  ²⁴ tn Or “distress.”

[138:7]  ²⁵ tn Heb “against the anger of my enemies you extend your hand.”