Mazmur 50:22

50:22 Carefully consider this, you who reject God! ¹ 

Otherwise I will rip you to shreds ² 

and no one will be able to rescue you.

Mazmur 71:13

71:13 May my accusers be humiliated and defeated!

May those who want to harm me ³  be covered with scorn and disgrace!

Mazmur 88:4

88:4 They treat me like ⁴  those who descend into the grave. ⁵ 

I am like a helpless man, ⁶ 

Mazmur 145:18

145:18 The Lord is near all who cry out to him,

all who cry out to him sincerely. ⁷ 

[50:22]  ¹ tn Heb “[you who] forget God.” “Forgetting God” here means forgetting about his commandments and not respecting his moral authority.

[50:22]  ² sn Elsewhere in the psalms this verb is used (within a metaphorical framework) of a lion tearing its prey (see Pss 7:2; 17:12; 22:13).

[71:13]  ³ tn Heb “those who seek my harm.”

[88:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “I am considered with.”

[88:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “the pit.” The noun בּוֹר (bor, “pit,” “cistern”) is sometimes used of the grave and/or the realm of the dead.

[88:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “I am like a man [for whom] there is no help.”

[145:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “in truth.”