Mazmur 66:2

66:2 Sing praises about the majesty of his reputation! ¹ 

Give him the honor he deserves! ² 

Mazmur 102:19

102:19 For he will look down from his sanctuary above; ³ 

from heaven the Lord will look toward earth, ⁴ 

Mazmur 102:1

Psalm 102 ⁵ 

The prayer of an oppressed man, as he grows faint and pours out his lament before the Lord.

102:1 O Lord, hear my prayer!

Pay attention to my cry for help! ⁶ 

1 Petrus 2:9

2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues ⁷  of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

[66:2]  ¹ tn Heb “his name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.

[66:2]  ² tn Heb “make honorable his praise.”

[102:19]  ³ tn Heb “from the height of his sanctuary.”

[102:19]  ⁴ tn The perfect verbal forms in v. 19 are functioning as future perfects, indicating future actions that will precede the future developments described in v. 18.

[102:1]  ⁵ sn Psalm 102. The psalmist laments his oppressed state, but longs for a day when the Lord will restore Jerusalem and vindicate his suffering people.

[102:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “and may my cry for help come to you.”

[2:9]  ⁷ sn This verse contains various allusions and quotations from Exod 19:5-6; 23:22 (LXX); Isa 43:20-21; and Mal 3:17.