Mazmur 4:5

4:5 Offer the prescribed sacrifices ¹ 

and trust in the Lord! ² 

Mazmur 37:4

37:4 Then you will take delight in the Lord, ³ 

and he will answer your prayers. ⁴ 

Mazmur 45:3

45:3 Strap your sword to your thigh, O warrior! ⁵ 

Appear in your majestic splendor! ⁶ 

Mazmur 109:1

Psalm 109 ⁷ 

For the music director, a psalm of David.

109:1 O God whom I praise, do not ignore me! ⁸ 

Mazmur 115:9-10

115:9 O Israel, trust in the Lord!

He is their deliverer ⁹  and protector. ¹⁰ 

115:10 O family ¹¹  of Aaron, trust in the Lord!

He is their deliverer ¹²  and protector. ¹³ 

Mazmur 128:2

128:2 You ¹⁴  will eat what you worked so hard to grow. ¹⁵ 

You will be blessed and secure. ¹⁶ 

[4:5]  ¹ tn Or “proper, right.” The phrase also occurs in Deut 33:19 and Ps 51:19.

[4:5]  ² sn Trust in the Lord. The psalmist urges his enemies to make peace with God and become his followers.

[37:4]  ³ tn Following the imperatives of v. 3 the prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) in v. 4 indicate result. Faith and obedience (v. 3) will bring divine blessing (v. 4).

[37:4]  ⁴ tn Or “and he will give you what you desire most.” Heb “and he will grant to you the requests of your heart.”

[45:3]  ⁵ tn Or “mighty one.”

[45:3]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew text has simply, “your majesty and your splendor,” which probably refers to the king’s majestic splendor when he appears in full royal battle regalia.

[109:1]  ⁷ sn Psalm 109. Appealing to God’s justice, the psalmist asks God to vindicate him and to bring severe judgment down upon his enemies.

[109:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “do not be deaf.”

[115:9]  ⁹ tn Or “[source of] help.”

[115:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and their shield.”

[115:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “house.”

[115:10]  ¹² tn Or “[source of] help.”

[115:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “and their shield.”

[128:2]  ¹⁴ tn The psalmist addresses the representative God-fearing man, as indicated by the references to “your wife” (v. 3) and “the man” (v. 4), as well as the second masculine singular pronominal and verbal forms in vv. 2-6.

[128:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the work of your hands, indeed you will eat.”

[128:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “how blessed you [will be] and it will be good for you.”