Mazmur 5:2

5:2 Pay attention to my cry for help,

my king and my God,

for I am praying to you!

Mazmur 18:21

18:21 For I have obeyed the Lord’s commands; ¹ 

I have not rebelled against my God. ² 

Mazmur 35:24

35:24 Vindicate me by your justice, O Lord my God!

Do not let them gloat ³  over me!

Mazmur 38:21

38:21 Do not abandon me, O Lord!

My God, do not remain far away from me!

Mazmur 71:4

71:4 My God, rescue me from the power ⁴  of the wicked,

from the hand of the cruel oppressor!

Mazmur 83:13

83:13 O my God, make them like dead thistles, ⁵ 

like dead weeds blown away by ⁶  the wind!

Mazmur 104:33

104:33 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;

I will sing praise to my God as long as I exist! ⁷ 

[18:21]  ¹ tn Heb “for I have kept the ways of the Lord.” The phrase “ways of the Lord” refers here to the “conduct required” by the Lord. In Ps 25 the Lord’s “ways” are associated with his covenantal demands (see vv. 4, 9-10). See also Ps 119:3 (cf. vv. 1, 4), as well as Deut 8:6; 10:12; 11:22; 19:9; 26:17; 28:9; 30:16.

[18:21]  ² tn Heb “I have not acted wickedly from my God.” The statement is elliptical; the idea is, “I have not acted wickedly and, in so doing, departed from my God.”

[35:24]  ³ tn Heb “rejoice.”

[71:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “hand.”

[83:13]  ⁵ tn Or “tumbleweed.” The Hebrew noun גַּלְגַּל (galgal) refers to a “wheel” or, metaphorically, to a whirling wind (see Ps 77:18). If taken in the latter sense here, one could understand the term as a metonymical reference to dust blown by a whirlwind (cf. NRSV “like whirling dust”). However, HALOT 190 s.v. II גַּלְגַּל understands the noun as a homonym referring to a “dead thistle” here and in Isa 17:13. The parallel line, which refers to קַשׁ (qash, “chaff”), favors this interpretation.

[83:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “before.”

[104:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “in my duration.”