Mazmur 25:10

25:10 The Lord always proves faithful and reliable ¹ 

to those who follow the demands of his covenant. ² 

Mazmur 36:5-6

36:5 O Lord, your loyal love reaches to the sky; ³ 

your faithfulness to the clouds. ⁴ 

36:6 Your justice is like the highest mountains, ⁵ 

your fairness like the deepest sea;

you preserve ⁶  mankind and the animal kingdom. ⁷ 

Mazmur 85:10-11

85:10 Loyal love and faithfulness meet; ⁸ 

deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. ⁹ 

85:11 Faithfulness grows from the ground,

and deliverance looks down from the sky. ¹⁰ 

Mazmur 96:13

96:13 before the Lord, for he comes!

For he comes to judge the earth!

He judges the world fairly, ¹¹ 

and the nations in accordance with his justice. ¹² 

[25:10]  ¹ tn Heb “all the paths of the Lord are faithful and trustworthy.” The Lord’s “paths” refer here to his characteristic actions.

[25:10]  ² tn Heb “to the ones who keep his covenant and his testimonies.”

[36:5]  ³ tn Heb “[is] in the heavens.”

[36:5]  ⁴ sn The Lord’s loyal love/faithfulness is almost limitless. He is loyal and faithful to his creation and blesses mankind and the animal kingdom with physical life and sustenance (vv. 6-9).

[36:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “mountains of God.” The divine name אֵל (’el, “God”) is here used in an idiomatic manner to indicate the superlative.

[36:6]  ⁶ tn Or “deliver.”

[36:6]  ⁷ sn God’s justice/fairness is firm and reliable like the highest mountains and as abundant as the water in the deepest sea. The psalmist uses a legal metaphor to describe God’s preservation of his creation. Like a just judge who vindicates the innocent, God protects his creation from destructive forces.

[85:10]  ⁸ tn The psalmist probably uses the perfect verbal forms in v. 10 in a dramatic or rhetorical manner, describing what he anticipates as if it were already occurring or had already occurred.

[85:10]  ⁹ sn Deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. The psalmist personifies these abstract qualities to emphasize that God’s loyal love and faithfulness will yield deliverance and peace for his people.

[85:11]  ¹⁰ sn The psalmist already sees undeniable signs of God’s faithfulness and expects deliverance to arrive soon.

[96:13]  ¹¹ tn The verbal forms in v. 13 probably describe God’s typical, characteristic behavior, though they may depict in dramatic fashion the outworking of divine judgment or anticipate a future judgment of worldwide proportions, in which case they could be translated “will judge the world.”

[96:13]  ¹² tn Heb “and the nations with his integrity.”