Mazmur 34:14-17

34:14 Turn away from evil and do what is right! ¹ 

Strive for peace and promote it! ² 

34:15 The Lord pays attention to the godly

and hears their cry for help. ³ 

34:16 But the Lord opposes evildoers

and wipes out all memory of them from the earth. ⁴ 

34:17 The godly ⁵  cry out and the Lord hears;

he saves them from all their troubles. ⁶ 

[34:14]  ¹ tn Or “do good.”

[34:14]  ² tn Heb “seek peace and pursue it.”

[34:15]  ³ tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord [are] toward the godly, and his ears [are] toward their cry for help.”

[34:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “the face of the Lord [is] against the doers of evil to cut off from the earth memory of them.”

[34:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “they” (i.e., the godly mentioned in v. 15).

[34:17]  ⁶ tn The three perfect verbal forms are taken in a generalizing sense in v. 17 and translated with the present tense (note the generalizing mood of vv. 18-22).