Mazmur 57:10

57:10 For your loyal love extends beyond the sky, ¹ 

and your faithfulness reaches the clouds.

Mazmur 103:8-12

103:8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful;

he is patient ²  and demonstrates great loyal love. ³ 

103:9 He does not always accuse,

and does not stay angry. ⁴ 

103:10 He does not deal with us as our sins deserve; ⁵ 

he does not repay us as our misdeeds deserve. ⁶ 

103:11 For as the skies are high above the earth,

so his loyal love towers ⁷  over his faithful followers. ⁸ 

103:12 As far as the eastern horizon ⁹  is from the west, ¹⁰ 

so he removes the guilt of our rebellious actions ¹¹  from us.

Mazmur 108:4

108:4 For your loyal love extends beyond the sky, ¹² 

and your faithfulness reaches the clouds.

[57:10]  ¹ tn Heb “for great upon the sky [or “heavens”] [is] your loyal love.”

[103:8]  ² tn Heb “slow to anger” (see Ps 86:15).

[103:8]  ³ tn Heb “and great of loyal love” (see Ps 86:15).

[103:9]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew verb נָטַר (natar) is usually taken to mean “to keep; to guard,” with “anger” being understood by ellipsis. The idiom “to guard anger” is then understood to mean “to remain angry” (see Lev 19:18; Jer 3:5, 12; Nah 1:2). However, it is possible that this is a homonymic root meaning “to be angry” (see HALOT 695 s.v. נטר).

[103:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “not according to our sins does he do to us.”

[103:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “and not according to our misdeeds does he repay us.”

[103:11]  ⁷ tn For this sense of the verb גָבַר (gavar), see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 17, 19.

[103:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “those who fear him.”

[103:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “sunrise.”

[103:12]  ¹⁰ tn Or “sunset.”

[103:12]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew term פֶּשַׁע (pesha’, rebellious act”) is here used metonymically for the guilt such actions produce.

[108:4]  ¹² tn Heb “for great upon the sky [or “heavens”] [is] your loyal love.”