Mazmur 149:2

149:2 Let Israel rejoice in their Creator!

Let the people ¹  of Zion delight in their king! ² 

Yesaya 6:5

6:5 I said, “Too bad for me! I am destroyed, ³  for my lips are contaminated by sin, ⁴  and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. ⁵  My eyes have seen the king, the Lord who commands armies.” ⁶ 

Yesaya 55:4

55:4 Look, I made him a witness to nations, ⁷ 

a ruler and commander of nations.”

Yehezkiel 37:24

37:24 “‘My servant David will be king over them; there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow ⁸  my regulations and carefully observe my statutes. ⁹ 

[149:2]  ¹ tn Heb “sons.”

[149:2]  ² sn The Lord is the king here, as the parallelism in the previous line (“their creator”) indicates.

[6:5]  ³ tn Isaiah uses the suffixed (perfect) form of the verb for rhetorical purposes. In this way his destruction is described as occurring or as already completed. Rather than understanding the verb as derived from דָּמַה (damah, “be destroyed”), some take it from a proposed homonymic root דמה, which would mean “be silent.” In this case, one might translate, “I must be silent.”

[6:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “a man unclean of lips am I.” Isaiah is not qualified to praise the king. His lips (the instruments of praise) are “unclean” because he has been contaminated by sin.

[6:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “and among a nation unclean of lips I live.”

[6:5]  ⁶ tn Perhaps in this context, the title has a less militaristic connotation and pictures the Lord as the ruler of the heavenly assembly. See the note at 1:9.

[55:4]  ⁷ sn Ideally the Davidic king was to testify to the nations of God’s greatness (cf. Pss 18:50 HT [18:49 ET]; 22:28 HT [22:27 ET]). See J. H. Eaton, Kingship in the Psalms (SBT), 182-84.

[37:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “walk [in].”

[37:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “and my statutes they will guard and they will do them.”