Mazmur 28:6

28:6 The Lord deserves praise, ¹ 

for he has heard my plea for mercy! ² 

Mazmur 33:10

33:10 The Lord frustrates ³  the decisions of the nations;

he nullifies the plans ⁴  of the peoples.

Mazmur 37:23

37:23 The Lord grants success to the one

whose behavior he finds commendable. ⁵ 

Mazmur 78:68

78:68 He chose the tribe of Judah,

and Mount Zion, which he loves.

Mazmur 90:6

90:6 in the morning it glistens ⁶  and sprouts up;

at evening time it withers ⁷  and dries up.

Mazmur 103:8

103:8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful;

he is patient ⁸  and demonstrates great loyal love. ⁹ 

Mazmur 105:7

105:7 He is the Lord our God;

he carries out judgment throughout the earth. ¹⁰ 

Mazmur 106:33

106:33 for they aroused ¹¹  his temper, ¹² 

and he spoke rashly. ¹³ 

Mazmur 115:13

115:13 He will bless his loyal followers, ¹⁴ 

both young and old. ¹⁵ 

Mazmur 116:1

Psalm 116 ¹⁶ 

116:1 I love the Lord

because he heard my plea for mercy, ¹⁷ 

Mazmur 121:8

121:8 The Lord will protect you in all you do, ¹⁸ 

now and forevermore.

Mazmur 147:3-4

147:3 He heals ¹⁹  the brokenhearted,

and bandages their wounds.

147:4 He counts the number of the stars;

he names all of them.

Mazmur 147:16

147:16 He sends the snow that is white like wool;

he spreads the frost that is white like ashes. ²⁰ 

[28:6]  ¹ tn Heb “blessed [be] the Lord.”

[28:6]  ² sn He has heard my plea for mercy. The psalmist’s mood abruptly changes at this point, because the Lord responded positively to his petition and assured him that he would deliver him.

[33:10]  ³ tn Heb “breaks” or “destroys.” The Hebrew perfect verbal forms here and in the next line generalize about the Lord’s activity.

[33:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “thoughts.”

[37:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “from the Lord the steps of a man are established, and in his way he delights.” The second line qualifies the first. The man whose behavior is commendable in God’s sight is the one whose ways are established by God. Another option is that the second line refers to the godly man delighting in God’s “way,” namely the lifestyle which he prescribes for men. In this case one might translate, “The Lord grants success to the one who desires to obey his commands.”

[90:6]  ⁶ tn Or “flourishes.” The verb is used of a crown shining in Ps 132:18. Perhaps here in Ps 90:6 it refers to the glistening of the grass in the morning dew.

[90:6]  ⁷ tn The Polel form of this verb occurs only here. Perhaps the form should be emended to a Qal (which necessitates eliminating the final lamed [ל] as dittographic). See Ps 37:2.

[103:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “slow to anger” (see Ps 86:15).

[103:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “and great of loyal love” (see Ps 86:15).

[105:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in all the earth [are] his judgments.”

[106:33]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew text vocalizes the form as הִמְרוּ (himru), a Hiphil from מָרָה (marah, “to behave rebelliously”), but the verb fits better with the object (“his spirit”) if it is revocalized as הֵמֵרוּ (hemeru), a Hiphil from מָרַר (marar, “to be bitter”). The Israelites “embittered” Moses’ “spirit” in the sense that they aroused his temper with their complaints.

[106:33]  ¹² tn Heb “his spirit.”

[106:33]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew text adds “with his lips,” but this has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[106:33]  sn Verses 32-33 allude to the events of Num 20:1-13.

[115:13]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the fearers of the Lord.”

[115:13]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the small along with the great.” The translation assumes that “small” and “great” here refer to age (see 2 Chr 15:13). Another option is to translate “both the insignificant and the prominent” (see Job 3:19; cf. NEB “high and low alike”).

[116:1]  ¹⁶ sn Psalm 116. The psalmist thanks the Lord for delivering him from a life threatening crisis and promises to tell the entire covenant community what God has done for him.

[116:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “I love because the Lord heard my voice, my pleas.” It is possible that “the Lord” originally appeared directly after “I love” and was later accidentally misplaced. The translation assumes the prefixed verbal form is a preterite. The psalmist recalls that God heard his cry for help (note the perfect in v. 2a and the narrative in vv. 3-4).

[121:8]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “your going out and your coming in.”

[147:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the one who heals.”

[147:16]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the one who gives snow like wool, frost like ashes he scatters.”