Mazmur 31:13

31:13 For I hear what so many are saying, ¹ 

the terrifying news that comes from every direction. ² 

When they plot together against me,

they figure out how they can take my life.

Mazmur 36:8

36:8 They are filled with food from your house,

and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.

Mazmur 65:8

65:8 Even those living in the most remote areas are awestruck by your acts; ³ 

you cause those living in the east and west to praise you. ⁴ 

Mazmur 22:9

22:9 Yes, you are the one who brought me out ⁵  from the womb

and made me feel secure on my mother’s breasts.

Mazmur 30:9

30:9 “What ⁶  profit is there in taking my life, ⁷ 

in my descending into the Pit? ⁸ 

Can the dust of the grave ⁹  praise you?

Can it declare your loyalty? ¹⁰ 

Mazmur 44:5

44:5 By your power ¹¹  we will drive back ¹²  our enemies;

by your strength ¹³  we will trample down ¹⁴  our foes! ¹⁵ 

Mazmur 58:9

58:9 Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, ¹⁶ 

he ¹⁷  will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat. ¹⁸ 

Mazmur 60:6

60:6 God has spoken in his sanctuary: ¹⁹ 

“I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem;

the Valley of Succoth I will measure off. ²⁰ 

Mazmur 76:11

76:11 Make vows to the Lord your God and repay them!

Let all those who surround him ²¹  bring tribute to the awesome one!

Mazmur 77:2

77:2 In my time of trouble I sought ²²  the Lord.

I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night. ²³ 

I ²⁴  refused to be comforted.

Mazmur 89:3

89:3 The Lord said, ²⁵ 

“I have made a covenant with my chosen one;

I have made a promise on oath to David, my servant:

Mazmur 108:7

108:7 God has spoken in his sanctuary: ²⁶ 

“I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem,

the valley of Succoth I will measure off. ²⁷ 

[31:13]  ¹ tn Heb “the report of many.”

[31:13]  ² tn Heb “the terror from all around.”

[65:8]  ³ tn Heb “and the inhabitants of the ends fear because of your signs.” God’s “signs” are the “awesome acts” (see v. 5) he performs in the earth.

[65:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “the goings out of the morning and the evening you cause to shout for joy.” The phrase “goings out of the morning and evening” refers to the sunrise and sunset, that is, the east and the west.

[22:9]  ⁵ tn Or “the one who pulled me.” The verb is derived from either גָחָה (gakhah; see HALOT 187 s.v. גחה) or גִּיחַ (giyakh; see BDB 161 s.v. גִּיחַ) and seems to carry the nuance “burst forth” or “pull out.”

[30:9]  ⁶ sn The following two verses (vv. 9-10) contain the prayer (or an excerpt of the prayer) that the psalmist offered to the Lord during his crisis.

[30:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “What profit [is there] in my blood?” “Blood” here represents his life.

[30:9]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew term שָׁחַת (shakhat, “pit”) is often used as a title for Sheol (see Pss 16:10; 49:9; 55:24; 103:4).

[30:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “dust.” The words “of the grave” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[30:9]  ¹⁰ tn The rhetorical questions anticipate the answer, “Of course not!”

[30:9]  sn According to the OT, those who descend into the realm of death/Sheol are cut off from God’s mighty deeds and from the worshiping covenant community that experiences divine intervention (Pss 6:5; 88:10-12; Isa 38:18). In his effort to elicit a positive divine response, the psalmist reminds God that he will receive no praise or glory if he allows the psalmist to die. Dead men do not praise God!

[44:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “by you.”

[44:5]  ¹² tn Heb “gore” (like an ox). If this portion of the psalm contains the song of confidence/petition the Israelites recited prior to battle, then the imperfects here and in the next line may express their expectation of victory. Another option is that the imperfects function in an emphatic generalizing manner. In this case one might translate, “you [always] drive back…you [always] trample down.”

[44:5]  sn The Hebrew verb translated “drive back” is literally “gore”; the imagery is that of a powerful wild ox that “gores” its enemies and tramples them underfoot.

[44:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “in your name.” The Lord’s “name” refers here to his revealed character or personal presence. Specifically in this context his ability to deliver, protect, and energize for battle is in view (see Ps 54:1).

[44:5]  ¹⁴ sn The image of the powerful wild ox continues; see the note on the phrase “drive back” in the preceding line.

[44:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “those who rise up [against] us.”

[58:9]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “before your pots perceive thorns.”

[58:9]  ¹⁷ tn Apparently God (v. 6) is the subject of the verb here.

[58:9]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “like living, like burning anger he will sweep it away.” The meaning of the text is unclear. The translation assumes that within the cooking metaphor (see the previous line) חַי (khay, “living”) refers here to raw meat (as in 1 Sam 2:15, where it modifies בָּשָׂר, basar, “flesh”) and that חָרוּן (kharun; which always refers to God’s “burning anger” elsewhere) here refers to food that is cooked. The pronominal suffix on the verb “sweep away” apparently refers back to the “thorns” of the preceding line. The image depicts swift and sudden judgment. Before the fire has been adequately kindled and all the meat cooked, the winds of judgment will sweep away everything in their path.

[60:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “in his holy place.”

[60:6]  ²⁰ sn Shechem stands for the territory west of the Jordan, the Valley of Succoth for the region east of the Jordan.

[76:11]  ²¹ tn The phrase “all those who surround him” may refer to the surrounding nations (v. 12 may favor this), but in Ps 89:7 the phrase refers to God’s heavenly assembly.

[77:2]  ²² tn Here the psalmist refers back to the very recent past, when he began to pray for divine help.

[77:2]  ²³ tn Heb “my hand [at] night was extended and was not growing numb.” The verb נָגַר (nagar), which can mean “flow” in certain contexts, here has the nuance “be extended.” The imperfect form (תָפוּג, tafug, “to be numb”) is used here to describe continuous action in the past.

[77:2]  ²⁴ tn Or “my soul.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) with a pronominal suffix is often equivalent to a pronoun, especially in poetry (see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 4.a).

[89:3]  ²⁵ tn The words “the Lord said” are supplied in the translation for clarification. It is clear that the words of vv. 3-4 are spoken by the Lord, in contrast to vv. 1-2, which are spoken by the psalmist.

[108:7]  ²⁶ tn Heb “in his holy place.”

[108:7]  ²⁷ sn Shechem stands for the territory west of the Jordan River; the valley of Succoth represents the region east of the Jordan.