Mazmur 32:8

32:8 I will instruct and teach you ¹  about how you should live. ² 

I will advise you as I look you in the eye. ³ 

Mazmur 60:3

60:3 You have made your people experience hard times; ⁴ 

you have made us drink intoxicating wine. ⁵ 

Mazmur 74:11

74:11 Why do you remain inactive?

Intervene and destroy him! ⁶ 

Mazmur 80:5

80:5 You have given them tears as food; ⁷ 

you have made them drink tears by the measure. ⁸ 

Mazmur 80:8

80:8 You uprooted a vine ⁹  from Egypt;

you drove out nations and transplanted it.

Mazmur 83:1

Psalm 83 ¹⁰ 

A song, a psalm of Asaph.

83:1 O God, do not be silent!

Do not ignore us! ¹¹  Do not be inactive, O God!

Mazmur 89:10

89:10 You crushed the Proud One ¹²  and killed it; ¹³ 

with your strong arm you scattered your enemies.

Mazmur 91:13

91:13 You will subdue ¹⁴  a lion and a snake; ¹⁵ 

you will trample underfoot a young lion and a serpent.

[32:8]  ¹ tn The second person pronominal forms in this verse are singular. The psalmist addresses each member of his audience individually (see also the note on the word “eye” in the next line). A less likely option (but one which is commonly understood) is that the Lord addresses the psalmist in vv. 8-9 (cf. NASB “I will instruct you and teach you…I will counsel you with My eye upon you”).

[32:8]  ² tn Heb “I will instruct you and I will teach you in the way [in] which you should walk.”

[32:8]  ³ tn Heb “I will advise, upon you my eye,” that is, “I will offer advice [with] my eye upon you.” In 2 Chr 20:12 the statement “our eye is upon you” means that the speakers are looking to the Lord for intervention. Here the expression “my eye upon you” may simply mean that the psalmist will teach his pupils directly and personally.

[60:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “you have caused your people to see [what is] hard.”

[60:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “wine of staggering,” that is, intoxicating wine that makes one stagger in drunkenness. Intoxicating wine is here an image of divine judgment that makes its victims stagger like drunkards. See Isa 51:17-23.

[74:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? From the midst of your chest, destroy!” The psalmist pictures God as having placed his right hand (symbolic of activity and strength) inside his robe against his chest. He prays that God would pull his hand out from under his robe and use it to destroy the enemy.

[80:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “you have fed them the food of tears.”

[80:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “[by] the third part [of a measure].” The Hebrew term שָׁלִישׁ (shalish, “third part [of a measure]”) occurs only here and in Isa 40:12.

[80:8]  ⁹ sn The vine is here a metaphor for Israel (see Ezek 17:6-10; Hos 10:1).

[83:1]  ¹⁰ sn Psalm 83. The psalmist asks God to deliver Israel from the attacks of foreign nations. Recalling how God defeated Israel’s enemies in the days of Deborah and Gideon, he prays that the hostile nations would be humiliated.

[83:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “do not be deaf.”

[89:10]  ¹² tn Heb “Rahab.” The name “Rahab” means “proud one.” Since it is sometimes used of Egypt (see Ps 87:4; Isa 30:7), the passage may allude to the exodus. However, the name is also used of the sea (or the mythological sea creature) which symbolizes the disruptive forces of the world that seek to replace order with chaos (see Job 9:13; 26:12). Isa 51:9 appears to combine the mythological and historical referents. The association of Rahab with the sea in Ps 89 (see v. 9) suggests that the name carries symbolic force in this context. In this case the passage may allude to creation (see vv. 11-12), when God overcame the great deep and brought order out of chaos.

[89:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “like one fatally wounded.”

[91:13]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “walk upon.”

[91:13]  ¹⁵ tn Or perhaps “cobra” (see Ps 58:4).