Mazmur 26:3

26:3 For I am ever aware of your faithfulness, ¹ 

and your loyalty continually motivates me. ² 

Mazmur 32:10

32:10 An evil person suffers much pain, ³ 

but the Lord’s faithfulness overwhelms the one who trusts in him. ⁴ 

Mazmur 85:10

85:10 Loyal love and faithfulness meet; ⁵ 

deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. ⁶ 

Mazmur 103:4

103:4 who delivers ⁷  your life from the Pit, ⁸ 

who crowns you with his loyal love and compassion,

[26:3]  ¹ tn Heb “for your faithfulness [is] before my eyes.”

[26:3]  ² tn Heb “and I walk about in your loyalty.”

[26:3]  sn The psalmist’s awareness of the Lord’s faithfulness and…loyalty toward him motivates him to remain loyal to the Lord and to maintain his moral purity.

[32:10]  ³ tn Heb “many [are the] pains of evil [one].” The singular form is representative here; the typical evildoer, representative of the larger group of wicked people, is in view.

[32:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “but the one who trusts in the Lord, faithfulness surrounds him.”

[85:10]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ 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.

[103:4]  ⁷ tn Or “redeems.”

[103:4]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew term שַׁחַת (shakhat, “pit”) is often used as a title for Sheol (see Pss 16:10; 30:9; 49:9; 55:24.