Mazmur 22:14

22:14 My strength drains away like water; ¹ 

all my bones are dislocated;

my heart ²  is like wax;

it melts away inside me.

Mazmur 81:14

81:14 Then I would quickly subdue their enemies,

and attack ³  their adversaries.”

Mazmur 86:9

86:9 All the nations, whom you created,

will come and worship you, ⁴  O Lord.

They will honor your name.

Mazmur 89:7

89:7 a God who is honored ⁵  in the great angelic assembly, ⁶ 

and more awesome than ⁷  all who surround him?

Mazmur 143:12

143:12 As a demonstration of your loyal love, ⁸  destroy my enemies!

Annihilate ⁹  all who threaten my life, ¹⁰ 

for I am your servant.

Mazmur 145:21

145:21 My mouth will praise the Lord. ¹¹ 

Let all who live ¹²  praise his holy name forever!

[22:14]  ¹ tn Heb “like water I am poured out.”

[22:14]  ² sn The heart is viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s strength and courage.

[81:14]  ³ tn Heb “turn my hand against.” The idiom “turn the hand against” has the nuance of “strike with the hand, attack” (see Isa 1:25; Ezek 38:12; Amos 1:8; Zech 13:7).

[86:9]  ⁴ tn Or “bow down before you.”

[89:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “feared.”

[89:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “in the great assembly of the holy ones.”

[89:7]  ⁷ tn Or perhaps “feared by.”

[143:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “in [or “by”] your faithfulness.”

[143:12]  ⁹ tn The perfect with vav (ו) consecutive carries on the mood of the preceding imperfect.

[143:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “all the enemies of my life.”

[145:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the praise of the Lord my mouth will speak.”

[145:21]  ¹² tn Heb “all flesh.”