69:29 I am oppressed and suffering!
O God, deliver and protect me! 1
69:30 I will sing praises to God’s name! 2
I will magnify him as I give him thanks! 3
69:31 That will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull
with horns and hooves.
69:32 The oppressed look on – let them rejoice!
You who seek God, 4 may you be encouraged! 5
69:33 For the Lord listens to the needy;
he does not despise his captive people. 6
69:34 Let the heavens and the earth praise him,
along with the seas and everything that swims in them!
69:35 For God will deliver Zion
and rebuild the cities of Judah,
and his people 7 will again live in them and possess Zion. 8
1 tn Heb “your deliverance, O God, may it protect me.”
2 tn Heb “I will praise the name of God with a song.”
3 tn Heb “I will magnify him with thanks.”
4 sn You who seek God refers to those who seek to have a relationship with God by obeying and worshiping him (see Ps 53:2).
5 tn Heb “may your heart[s] live.” See Ps 22:26.
6 tn Heb “his prisoners he does not despise.”
7 tn Heb “they”; the referent (God’s people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Heb “it.” The third feminine singular pronominal suffix probably refers to “Zion” (see Pss 48:12; 102:14); thus the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.