Mazmur 5:4

5:4 Certainly ¹  you are not a God who approves of evil; ² 

evil people ³  cannot dwell with you. ⁴ 

Mazmur 50:3

50:3 Our God approaches and is not silent; ⁵ 

consuming fire goes ahead of him

and all around him a storm rages. ⁶ 

Mazmur 69:35

69:35 For God will deliver Zion

and rebuild the cities of Judah,

and his people ⁷  will again live in them and possess Zion. ⁸ 

Mazmur 89:7

89:7 a God who is honored ⁹  in the great angelic assembly, ¹⁰ 

and more awesome than ¹¹  all who surround him?

[5:4]  ¹ tn Or “for.”

[5:4]  ² tn Heb “not a God [who] delights [in] wickedness [are] you.”

[5:4]  ³ tn The Hebrew text has simply the singular form רע, which may be taken as an abstract noun “evil” (the reference to “wickedness” in the preceding line favors this; cf. NEB, NASB, NRSV) or as a substantival adjective “evil one” (the references to evil people in the next two verses favor this; cf. NIV “with you the wicked cannot dwell”).

[5:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “cannot dwell as a resident alien [with] you.” The negated imperfect verbal form here indicates incapability or lack of permission. These people are morally incapable of dwelling in God’s presence and are not permitted to do so.

[5:4]  sn Only the godly are allowed to dwell with the Lord. Evil people are excluded. See Ps 15.

[50:3]  ⁵ tn According to GKC 322 §109.e, the jussive (note the negative particle אַל, ’al) is used rhetorically here “to express the conviction that something cannot or should not happen.”

[50:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “fire before him devours, and around him it is very stormy.”

[69:35]  ⁷ tn Heb “they”; the referent (God’s people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[69:35]  ⁸ tn Heb “it.” The third feminine singular pronominal suffix probably refers to “Zion” (see Pss 48:12; 102:14); thus the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[89:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “feared.”

[89:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in the great assembly of the holy ones.”

[89:7]  ¹¹ tn Or perhaps “feared by.”