Mazmur 31:16

31:16 Smile ¹  on your servant!

Deliver me because of your faithfulness!

Mazmur 86:16

86:16 Turn toward me and have mercy on me!

Give your servant your strength!

Deliver your slave! ² 

Mazmur 143:12

143:12 As a demonstration of your loyal love, ³  destroy my enemies!

Annihilate ⁴  all who threaten my life, ⁵ 

for I am your servant.

Mazmur 9:3

9:3 When my enemies turn back,

they trip and are defeated ⁶  before you.

Mazmur 86:4

86:4 Make your servant ⁷  glad,

for to you, O Lord, I pray! ⁸ 

Mazmur 119:17

ג (Gimel)

119:17 Be kind to your servant!

Then I will live ⁹  and keep ¹⁰  your instructions. ¹¹ 

Mazmur 119:23

119:23 Though rulers plot and slander me, ¹² 

your servant meditates on your statutes.

Mazmur 119:38

119:38 Confirm to your servant your promise, ¹³ 

which you made to the one who honors you. ¹⁴ 

Mazmur 119:65

ט (Tet)

119:65 You are good ¹⁵  to your servant,

O Lord, just as you promised. ¹⁶ 

Mazmur 119:76

119:76 May your loyal love console me,

as you promised your servant. ¹⁷ 

Mazmur 119:124

119:124 Show your servant your loyal love! ¹⁸ 

Teach me your statutes!

Mazmur 144:10

144:10 the one who delivers ¹⁹  kings,

and rescued David his servant from a deadly ²⁰  sword.

Mazmur 119:20

119:20 I desperately long to know ²¹ 

your regulations at all times.

Mazmur 119:39

119:39 Take away the insults that I dread! ²² 

Indeed, ²³  your regulations are good.

Mazmur 119:137

צ (Tsade)

119:137 You are just, O Lord,

and your judgments are fair.

[31:16]  ¹ tn Heb “cause your face to shine.”

[86:16]  ² tn Heb “the son of your female servant.” The phrase “son of a female servant” (see also Ps 116:16) is used of a son born to a secondary wife or concubine (Exod 23:12). In some cases the child’s father is the master of the house (see Gen 21:10, 13; Judg 9:18). The use of the expression here certainly does not imply that the Lord has such a secondary wife or concubine! It is used metaphorically and idiomatically to emphasize the psalmist’s humility before the Lord and his status as the Lord’s servant.

[143:12]  ³ tn Heb “in [or “by”] your faithfulness.”

[143:12]  ⁴ tn The perfect with vav (ו) consecutive carries on the mood of the preceding imperfect.

[143:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “all the enemies of my life.”

[9:3]  ⁶ tn Or “perish”; or “die.” The imperfect verbal forms in this line either emphasize what typically happens or describe vividly the aftermath of a recent battle in which the Lord defeated the psalmist’s enemies.

[86:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “the soul of your servant.”

[86:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “I lift up my soul.”

[119:17]  ⁹ tn The prefixed verbal form is probably a cohortative indicating purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

[119:17]  ¹⁰ tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the imperative that begins the verse.

[119:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “your word.” Many medieval Hebrew mss as well as several ancient versions read the plural here.

[119:23]  ¹² tn Heb “though rulers sit, about me they talk together.” (For another example of the Niphal of דָּבַר (davar) used with a suffixed form of the preposition ב, see Ezek 33:30.)

[119:38]  ¹³ tn Heb “word.”

[119:38]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “which [is] for your fear,” that is, the promise made to those who exhibit fear of God.

[119:65]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “do good.”

[119:65]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “according to your word.”

[119:76]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “according to your word to your servant.”

[119:124]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “do with your servant according to your loyal love.”

[144:10]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “grants deliverance to.”

[144:10]  ²⁰ tn Heb “harmful.”

[119:20]  ²¹ tn Heb “my soul languishes for longing for.”

[119:39]  ²² tn Heb “my reproach that I fear.”

[119:39]  ²³ tn Or “for.”