Mazmur 27:5

27:5 He will surely ¹  give me shelter ²  in the day of danger; ³ 

he will hide me in his home; ⁴ 

he will place me ⁵  on an inaccessible rocky summit. ⁶ 

Mazmur 32:7

32:7 You are my hiding place;

you protect me from distress.

You surround me with shouts of joy from those celebrating deliverance. ⁷  (Selah)

Mazmur 57:1

Psalm 57 ⁸ 

For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; ⁹  a prayer ¹⁰  of David, written when he fled from Saul into the cave. ¹¹ 

57:1 Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me!

For in you I have taken shelter. ¹² 

In the shadow of your wings ¹³  I take shelter

until trouble passes.

Mazmur 64:2

64:2 Hide me from the plots of evil men,

from the crowd of evildoers. ¹⁴ 

Mazmur 91:1

Psalm 91 ¹⁵ 

91:1 As for you, the one who lives ¹⁶  in the shelter of the sovereign One, ¹⁷ 

and resides in the protective shadow ¹⁸  of the mighty king ¹⁹  –

Mazmur 121:8

121:8 The Lord will protect you in all you do, ²⁰ 

now and forevermore.

[27:5]  ¹ tn Or “for he will.” The translation assumes the כִּי (ki) is asseverative here, rather than causal.

[27:5]  ² tn Heb “he will hide me in his hut.”

[27:5]  ³ tn Or “trouble.”

[27:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “tent.”

[27:5]  ⁵ tn The three imperfect verb forms in v. 5 anticipate a positive response to the prayer offered in vv. 7-12.

[27:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “on a rocky summit he lifts me up.” The Lord places the psalmist in an inaccessible place where his enemies cannot reach him. See Ps 18:2.

[32:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “[with] shouts of joy of deliverance you surround me.”

[57:1]  ⁸ sn Psalm 57. The psalmist asks for God’s protection and expresses his confidence that his ferocious enemies will be destroyed by their own schemes.

[57:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “do not destroy.” Perhaps this refers to a particular style of music, a tune title, or a musical instrument. These words also appear in the heading to Pss 58-59, 75.

[57:1]  ¹⁰ tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew word מִכְתָּם (miktam), which also appears in the heading to Pss 16, 56, 58-60 is uncertain. HALOT 582-83 s.v. defines it as “inscription.”

[57:1]  ¹¹ sn According to the superscription, David wrote this psalm on the occasion when he fled from Saul and hid in “the cave.” This probably refers to either the incident recorded in 1 Sam 22:1 or to the one recorded in 1 Sam 24:3.

[57:1]  ¹² tn Heb “my life has taken shelter.” The Hebrew perfect verbal form probably refers here to a completed action with continuing results.

[57:1]  ¹³ sn In the shadow of your wings. The metaphor likens God to a protective mother bird (see also Pss 17:8; 36:7).

[64:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “workers of wickedness.”

[91:1]  ¹⁵ sn Psalm 91. In this psalm an individual (perhaps a priest) addresses one who has sought shelter in the Lord and assures him that God will protect him from danger (vv. 1-13). In vv. 14-16 God himself promises to keep his loyal follower safe.

[91:1]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “[O] one who lives.”

[91:1]  ¹⁷ tn Traditionally “the Most High.”

[91:1]  ¹⁸ sn The Lord is compared here to a bird who protects its young under the shadow of its wings (see v. 4).

[91:1]  ¹⁹ sn The divine name used here is “Shaddai” (שַׁדַּי, shadday; see also Ps 68:14). Shaddai (or El Shaddai) is the mighty king (sovereign judge) of the world who grants life/blesses and kills/judges. In Genesis he blesses the patriarchs with fertility and promises numerous descendants. Outside Genesis he both blesses/protects and takes away life/happiness.

[121:8]  ²⁰ tn Heb “your going out and your coming in.”