Mazmur 18:40

18:40 You make my enemies retreat; ¹ 

I destroy those who hate me. ² 

Mazmur 35:24

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

Do not let them gloat ³  over me!

Mazmur 91:11

91:11 For he will order his angels ⁴ 

to protect you in all you do. ⁵ 

Mazmur 103:18

103:18 to those who keep his covenant,

who are careful to obey his commands. ⁶ 

Mazmur 104:26

104:26 The ships travel there,

and over here swims the whale ⁷  you made to play in it.

Mazmur 107:36

107:36 He allowed the hungry to settle there,

and they established a city in which to live.

Mazmur 109:15

109:15 May the Lord be constantly aware of them, ⁸ 

and cut off the memory of his children ⁹  from the earth!

Mazmur 119:34

119:34 Give me understanding so that I might observe your law,

and keep it with all my heart. ¹⁰ 

Mazmur 119:117

119:117 Support me, so that I will be delivered.

Then I will focus ¹¹  on your statutes continually.

Mazmur 144:6

144:6 Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them!

Shoot your arrows and rout them! ¹² 

[18:40]  ¹ tn Heb “and [as for] my enemies, you give to me [the] back [or “neck”].” The idiom “give [the] back” means “to cause [one] to turn the back and run away.” Cf. Exod 23:27.

[18:40]  ² sn Those who hate me. See v. 17, where it is the Lord who delivered the psalmist from those who hated him.

[35:24]  ³ tn Heb “rejoice.”

[91:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “for his angels he will command concerning you.”

[91:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “in all your ways.”

[103:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “to those who remember his precepts to do them.”

[104:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “[and] this Leviathan, [which] you formed to play in it.” Elsewhere Leviathan is a multiheaded sea monster that symbolizes forces hostile to God (see Ps 74:14; Isa 27:1), but here it appears to be an actual marine creature created by God, probably some type of whale.

[109:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “may they [that is, the sins mentioned in v. 14] be before the Lord continually.”

[109:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “their memory.” The plural pronominal suffix probably refers back to the children mentioned in v. 13, and for clarity this has been specified in the translation.

[119:34]  ¹⁰ tn The two prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) conjunctive indicate purpose/result after the introductory imperative.

[119:117]  ¹¹ tn Or “and that I might focus.” The two cohortatives with vav (ו) conjunctive indicate purpose/result after the imperative at the beginning of the verse.

[144:6]  ¹² sn Arrows and lightning bolts are associated in other texts (see Pss 18:14; 77:17-18; Zech 9:14), as well as in ancient Near Eastern art (see R. B. Chisholm, “An Exegetical and Theological study of Psalm 18/2 Samuel 22” [Th.D. diss., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1983], 187).