Mazmur 4:5

4:5 Offer the prescribed sacrifices ¹ 

and trust in the Lord! ² 

Mazmur 38:22

38:22 Hurry and help me, ³  O Lord, my deliverer!

Mazmur 89:44

89:44 You have brought to an end his splendor, ⁴ 

and have knocked ⁵  his throne to the ground.

Mazmur 89:52

89:52 ⁶ The Lord deserves praise ⁷  forevermore!

We agree! We agree! ⁸ 

Mazmur 108:2

108:2 Awake, O stringed instrument and harp!

I will wake up at dawn! ⁹ 

[4:5]  ¹ tn Or “proper, right.” The phrase also occurs in Deut 33:19 and Ps 51:19.

[4:5]  ² sn Trust in the Lord. The psalmist urges his enemies to make peace with God and become his followers.

[38:22]  ³ tn Heb “hurry to my help.” See Ps 22:19.

[89:44]  ⁴ tc The Hebrew text appears to read, “you have brought to an end from his splendor,” but the form מִטְּהָרוֹ (mittÿharo) should be slightly emended (the daghesh should be removed from the tet [ת]) and read simply “his splendor” (the initial mem [מ] is not the preposition, but a nominal prefix).

[89:44]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew verb מָגַר (magar) occurs only here and perhaps in Ezek 21:17.

[89:52]  ⁶ sn The final verse of Ps 89, v. 52, is a conclusion to this third “book” (or major editorial division) of the Psalter. Similar statements appear at or near the end of each of the first, second and fourth “books” of the Psalter (see Pss 41:13; 72:18-19; 106:48, respectively).

[89:52]  ⁷ tn Heb “[be] blessed.” See Pss 18:46; 28:6; 31:21.

[89:52]  ⁸ tn Heb “surely and surely” (אָמֵן וְאָמֵן [’amen vÿ’amen], i.e., “Amen and amen”). This is probably a congregational response to the immediately preceding statement about the propriety of praising God; thus it has been translated “We agree! We agree!”

[108:2]  ⁹ tn BDB 1007 s.v. שַׁחַר takes “dawn” as an adverbial accusative, though others understand it as a personified direct object. “Dawn” is used metaphorically for the time of deliverance and vindication the psalmist anticipates. When salvation “dawns,” the psalmist will “wake up” in praise.