Mazmur 22:29
Konteks22:29 All of the thriving people 1 of the earth will join the celebration and worship; 2
all those who are descending into the grave 3 will bow before him,
including those who cannot preserve their lives. 4
Mazmur 31:19
Konteks31:19 How great is your favor, 5
which you store up for your loyal followers! 6
In plain sight of everyone you bestow it on those who take shelter 7 in you. 8
Mazmur 56:13
Konteks56:13 when you deliver 9 my life from death.
You keep my feet from stumbling, 10
[22:29] 1 tn Heb “fat [ones].” This apparently refers to those who are healthy and robust, i.e., thriving. In light of the parallelism, some prefer to emend the form to יְשֵׁנֵי (yÿsheney, “those who sleep [in the earth]”; cf. NAB, NRSV), but דִּשְׁנֵי (dishney, “fat [ones]”) seems to form a merism with “all who descend into the grave” in the following line. The psalmist envisions all people, whether healthy or dying, joining in worship of the
[22:29] 2 tn Heb “eat and worship.” The verb forms (a perfect followed by a prefixed form with vav [ו] consecutive) are normally used in narrative to relate completed actions. Here the psalmist uses the forms rhetorically as he envisions a time when the
[22:29] 3 tn Heb “all of the ones going down [into] the dust.” This group stands in contrast to those mentioned in the previous line. Together the two form a merism encompassing all human beings – the healthy, the dying, and everyone in between.
[22:29] 4 tn Heb “and his life he does not revive.”
[31:19] 5 tn Or “How abundant are your blessings!”
[31:19] 6 tn Heb “for those who fear you.”
[31:19] 7 tn “Taking shelter” in the
[31:19] 8 tn Heb “you work [your favor] for the ones seeking shelter in you before the sons of men.”
[56:13] 9 tn The perfect verbal form is probably future perfect; the psalmist promises to make good on his vows once God has delivered him (see Pss 13:5; 52:9). (2) Another option is to understand the final two verses as being added later, after the
[56:13] 10 tn Heb “are not my feet [kept] from stumbling?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course they are!” The question has been translated as an affirmation for the sake of clarification of meaning.
[56:13] 11 tn Heb “walk before.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254; cf. the same idiom in 2 Kgs 20:3; Isa 38:3.
[56:13] 12 tn Heb “in the light of life.” The phrase is used here and in Job 33:30.