Mazmur 2:8

2:8 Ask me,

and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, ¹ 

the ends of the earth as your personal property.

Mazmur 50:5

50:5 He says: ² 

“Assemble my covenant people before me, ³ 

those who ratified a covenant with me by sacrifice!” ⁴ 

[2:8]  ¹ sn I will give you the nations. The Lord promises the Davidic king universal dominion.

[50:5]  ² tn The words “he says” are supplied in the translation for clarification. God’s summons to the defendant follows.

[50:5]  ³ tn Or “Gather to me my covenant people.” The Hebrew term חָסִיד (khasid, “covenant people”) elsewhere in the psalms is used in a positive sense of God’s loyal followers (see the note at Ps 4:3), but here, as the following line makes clear, the term has a neutral sense and simply refers to those who have outwardly sworn allegiance to God, not necessarily to those whose loyalty is genuine.

[50:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “the cutters of my covenant according to sacrifice.” A sacrifice accompanied the covenant-making ceremony and formally ratified the agreement (see Exod 24:3-8).