Mazmur 85:10-11

85:10 Loyal love and faithfulness meet; ¹ 

deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. ² 

85:11 Faithfulness grows from the ground,

and deliverance looks down from the sky. ³ 

Mazmur 99:4

99:4 The king is strong;

he loves justice. ⁴ 

You ensure that legal decisions will be made fairly; ⁵ 

you promote justice and equity in Jacob.

Mazmur 100:5

100:5 For the Lord is good.

His loyal love endures, ⁶ 

and he is faithful through all generations. ⁷ 

Mazmur 145:17

145:17 The Lord is just in all his actions, ⁸ 

and exhibits love in all he does. ⁹ 

[85:10]  ¹ tn The psalmist probably uses the perfect verbal forms in v. 10 in a dramatic or rhetorical manner, describing what he anticipates as if it were already occurring or had already occurred.

[85:10]  ² sn Deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. The psalmist personifies these abstract qualities to emphasize that God’s loyal love and faithfulness will yield deliverance and peace for his people.

[85:11]  ³ sn The psalmist already sees undeniable signs of God’s faithfulness and expects deliverance to arrive soon.

[99:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “and strength, a king, justice he loves.” The syntax of the Hebrew text is difficult here. The translation assumes that two affirmations are made about the king, the Lord (see v. 1, and Ps 98:6). The noun עֹז (’oz, “strength”) should probably be revocalized as the adjective עַז (’az, “strong”).

[99:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “you establish fairness.”

[100:5]  ⁶ tn Or “is forever.”

[100:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “and to a generation and a generation [is] his faithfulness.”

[145:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “in all his ways.”

[145:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “and [is] loving in all his deeds.”