Mazmur 9:10

9:10 Your loyal followers trust in you, ¹ 

for you, Lord, do not abandon those who seek your help. ² 

Mikha 7:17

7:17 They will lick the dust like a snake,

like serpents crawling on the ground. ³ 

They will come trembling from their strongholds

to the Lord our God; ⁴ 

they will be terrified ⁵  of you. ⁶ 

[9:10]  ¹ tn Heb “and the ones who know your name trust in you.” The construction vav (ו) conjunctive + imperfect at the beginning of the verse expresses another consequence of the statement made in v. 8. “To know” the Lord’s “name” means to be his follower, recognizing his authority and maintaining loyalty to him. See Ps 91:14, where “knowing” the Lord’s “name” is associated with loving him.

[9:10]  ² tn Heb “the ones who seek you.”

[7:17]  ³ tn Heb “like crawling things on the ground.” The parallelism suggests snakes are in view.

[7:17]  ⁴ tn Thetranslationassumesthatthe phrase אֶל־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ (’el-yÿhvah ’elohenu, “to the Lord our God”) goes with what precedes. Another option is to take the phrase with the following verb, in which case one could translate, “to the Lord our God they will turn in dread.”

[7:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “they will be in dread and afraid.”

[7:17]  ⁶ tn The Lord is addressed directly using the second person.