Mazmur 5:5

5:5 Arrogant people cannot stand in your presence; ¹ 

you hate ²  all who behave wickedly. ³ 

Mazmur 9:2

9:2 I will be happy and rejoice in you!

I will sing praises to you, O sovereign One! ⁴ 

Mazmur 22:22

22:22 I will declare your name to my countrymen! ⁵ 

In the middle of the assembly I will praise you!

Mazmur 36:10

36:10 Extend ⁶  your loyal love to your faithful followers, ⁷ 

and vindicate ⁸  the morally upright! ⁹ 

Mazmur 42:9

42:9 I will pray ¹⁰  to God, my high ridge: ¹¹ 

“Why do you ignore ¹²  me?

Why must I walk around mourning ¹³ 

because my enemies oppress me?”

Mazmur 44:22

44:22 Yet because of you ¹⁴  we are killed all day long;

we are treated like ¹⁵  sheep at the slaughtering block. ¹⁶ 

Mazmur 52:3

52:3 You love evil more than good,

lies more than speaking the truth. ¹⁷  (Selah)

Mazmur 73:20

73:20 They are like a dream after one wakes up. ¹⁸ 

O Lord, when you awake ¹⁹  you will despise them. ²⁰ 

Mazmur 73:27

73:27 Yes, ²¹  look! Those far from you ²²  die;

you destroy everyone who is unfaithful to you. ²³ 

Mazmur 88:8

88:8 You cause those who know me to keep their distance;

you make me an appalling sight to them.

I am trapped and cannot get free. ²⁴ 

Mazmur 89:39

89:39 You have repudiated ²⁵  your covenant with your servant; ²⁶ 

you have thrown his crown to the ground. ²⁷ 

Mazmur 137:8

137:8 O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! ²⁸ 

How blessed will be the one who repays you

for what you dished out to us! ²⁹ 

Mazmur 138:8

138:8 The Lord avenges me. ³⁰ 

O Lord, your loyal love endures.

Do not abandon those whom you have made! ³¹ 

Mazmur 139:21

139:21 O Lord, do I not hate those who hate you,

and despise those who oppose you? ³² 

[5:5]  ¹ tn Heb “before your eyes.”

[5:5]  ² sn You hate. The Lord “hates” the wicked in the sense that he despises their wicked character and deeds and actively opposes and judges them for their wickedness. See Ps 11:5.

[5:5]  ³ tn Heb “all the workers of wickedness.”

[9:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “[to] your name, O Most High.” God’s “name” refers metonymically to his divine characteristics as suggested by his name, in this case “Most High.” This divine title (עֶלְיוֹן, ’elyo/) pictures God as the exalted ruler of the universe who vindicates the innocent and judges the wicked. See especially Ps 47:2.

[22:22]  ⁵ tn Or “brothers,” but here the term does not carry a literal familial sense. It refers to the psalmist’s fellow members of the Israelite covenant community (see v. 23).

[36:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “draw out to full length.”

[36:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “to those who know you.” The Hebrew verb יָדַע (yada’, “know”) is used here of those who “know” the Lord in the sense that they recognize his royal authority and obey his will (see Jer 22:16).

[36:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “and your justice to.” The verb “extend” is understood by ellipsis in the second line (see the previous line).

[36:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “the pure of heart.” The “heart” is here viewed as the seat of one’s moral character and motives. The “pure of heart” are God’s faithful followers who trust in and love the Lord and, as a result, experience his deliverance (see Pss 7:10; 11:2; 32:11; 64:10; 94:15; 97:11).

[42:9]  ¹⁰ tn The cohortative form indicates the psalmist’s resolve.

[42:9]  ¹¹ tn This metaphor pictures God as a rocky, relatively inaccessible summit, where one would be able to find protection from enemies. See 1 Sam 23:25, 28; Pss 18:2; 31:3.

[42:9]  ¹² tn Or “forget.”

[42:9]  ¹³ sn Walk around mourning. See Ps 38:6 for a similar idea.

[44:22]  ¹⁴ tn The statement “because of you” (1) may simply indicate that God is the cause of the Israelites’ defeat (see vv. 9-14, where the nation’s situation is attributed directly to God’s activity, and cf. NEB, NRSV), or (2) it may suggest they suffer because of their allegiance to God (see Ps 69:7 and Jer 15:15). In this case one should translate, “for your sake” (cf. NASB, NIV). The citation of this verse in Rom 8:36 follows the LXX (Ps 43:23 LXX), where the Greek term ἕνεκεν (Jeneken; LXX ἕνεκα) may likewise mean “because of” or “for the sake of” (BDAG 334 s.v. ἕνεκα 1).

[44:22]  ¹⁵ tn Or “regarded as.”

[44:22]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “like sheep of slaughtering,” that is, sheep destined for slaughter.

[52:3]  ¹⁷ tn Or “deceit more than speaking what is right.”

[73:20]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “like a dream from awakening.” They lack any real substance; their prosperity will last for only a brief time.

[73:20]  ¹⁹ sn When you awake. The psalmist compares God’s inactivity to sleep and the time of God’s judgment to his awakening from sleep.

[73:20]  ²⁰ tn Heb “you will despise their form.” The Hebrew term צֶלֶם (tselem, “form; image”) also suggests their short-lived nature. Rather than having real substance, they are like the mere images that populate one’s dreams. Note the similar use of the term in Ps 39:6.

[73:27]  ²¹ tn Or “for.”

[73:27]  ²² sn The following line defines the phrase far from you in a spiritual sense. Those “far” from God are those who are unfaithful and disloyal to him.

[73:27]  ²³ tn Heb “everyone who commits adultery from you.”

[88:8]  ²⁴ tn Heb “[I am] confined and I cannot go out.”

[89:39]  ²⁵ tn The Hebrew verb appears only here and in Lam 2:7.

[89:39]  ²⁶ tn Heb “the covenant of your servant.”

[89:39]  ²⁷ tn Heb “you dishonor [or “desecrate”] on the ground his crown.”

[137:8]  ²⁸ tn Heb “O devastated daughter of Babylon.” The psalmist dramatically anticipates Babylon’s demise.

[137:8]  ²⁹ tn Heb “O the happiness of the one who repays you your wage which you paid to us.”

[138:8]  ³⁰ tn Heb “avenges on my behalf.” For the meaning “to avenge” for the verb גָּמַר (gamar), see HALOT 197-98 s.v. גמר.

[138:8]  ³¹ tn Heb “the works of your hands.” Many medieval Hebrew mss read the singular, “work of your hands.”

[139:21]  ³² tc Heb “who raise themselves up against you.” The form וּבִתְקוֹמְמֶיךָ (uvitqomÿmekha) should be emended to וּבְמִתְקוֹמְמֶיךָ (uvÿmitqomÿmekha), a Hitpolel participle (the prefixed mem [מ] of the participle is accidentally omitted in the MT, though a few medieval Hebrew mss have it).