Mazmur 7:10

7:10 The Exalted God is my shield, ¹ 

the one who delivers the morally upright. ² 

Mazmur 18:21

18:21 For I have obeyed the Lord’s commands; ³ 

I have not rebelled against my God. ⁴ 

Mazmur 35:24

35:24 Vindicate me by your justice, O Lord my God!

Do not let them gloat ⁵  over me!

Mazmur 38:21

38:21 Do not abandon me, O Lord!

My God, do not remain far away from me!

Mazmur 48:9

48:9 We reflect on your loyal love, O God,

within your temple.

Mazmur 50:14

50:14 Present to God a thank-offering!

Repay your vows to the sovereign One! ⁶ 

Mazmur 59:9

59:9 You are my source of strength! I will wait for you! ⁷ 

For God is my refuge. ⁸ 

Mazmur 66:10

66:10 For ⁹  you, O God, tested us;

you purified us like refined silver.

Mazmur 67:3

67:3 Let the nations thank you, O God!

Let all the nations thank you! ¹⁰ 

Mazmur 71:4

71:4 My God, rescue me from the power ¹¹  of the wicked,

from the hand of the cruel oppressor!

Mazmur 73:17

73:17 Then I entered the precincts of God’s temple, ¹² 

and understood the destiny of the wicked. ¹³ 

Mazmur 75:9

75:9 As for me, I will continually tell what you have done; ¹⁴ 

I will sing praises to the God of Jacob!

Mazmur 78:34

78:34 When he struck them down, ¹⁵  they sought his favor; ¹⁶ 

they turned back and longed for God.

Mazmur 81:4

81:4 For observing the festival is a requirement for Israel; ¹⁷ 

it is an ordinance given by the God of Jacob.

Mazmur 83:13

83:13 O my God, make them like dead thistles, ¹⁸ 

like dead weeds blown away by ¹⁹  the wind!

Mazmur 89:26

89:26 He will call out to me,

‘You are my father, ²⁰  my God, and the protector who delivers me.’ ²¹ 

Mazmur 106:14

106:14 In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving ²²  for meat; ²³ 

they challenged God ²⁴  in the desert.

Mazmur 106:21

106:21 They rejected ²⁵  the God who delivered them,

the one who performed great deeds in Egypt,

Mazmur 139:19

139:19 If only ²⁶  you would kill the wicked, O God!

Get away from me, you violent men! ²⁷ 

Mazmur 146:2

146:2 I will praise the Lord as long as I live!

I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist!

[7:10]  ¹ tn Traditionally, “my shield is upon God” (cf. NASB). As in v. 8, עַל (’al) should be understood as a divine title, here compounded with “God” (cf. NIV, “God Most High”). See M. Dahood, Psalms (AB), 1:45-46. The shield metaphor pictures God as a protector against deadly attacks.

[7:10]  ² tn Heb “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 11:2; 32:11; 36:10; 64:10; 94:15; 97:11).

[18:21]  ³ tn Heb “for I have kept the ways of the Lord.” The phrase “ways of the Lord” refers here to the “conduct required” by the Lord. In Ps 25 the Lord’s “ways” are associated with his covenantal demands (see vv. 4, 9-10). See also Ps 119:3 (cf. vv. 1, 4), as well as Deut 8:6; 10:12; 11:22; 19:9; 26:17; 28:9; 30:16.

[18:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “I have not acted wickedly from my God.” The statement is elliptical; the idea is, “I have not acted wickedly and, in so doing, departed from my God.”

[35:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “rejoice.”

[50:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “Most High.” This divine title (עֶלְיוֹן, ’elyon) pictures God as the exalted ruler of the universe who vindicates the innocent and judges the wicked. See especially Pss 7:17; 9:2; 18:13; 21:7; 47:2.

[59:9]  ⁷ tc Heb “his strength, for you I will watch.” “His strength” should be emended to “my strength” (see v. 17). Some also emend אֶשְׁמֹרָה (’eshmorah, “I will watch”) to אֱזַמֵּרָה (’ezammerah, “I will sing praises [to you]”) See v. 17.

[59:9]  ⁸ tn Or “my elevated place” (see Ps 18:2).

[66:10]  ⁹ tn Or “indeed.”

[67:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “let the nations, all of them, thank you.” The prefixed verbal forms in vv. 3-4a are understood as jussives in this call to praise.

[71:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “hand.”

[73:17]  ¹² tn The plural of the term מִקְדָּשׁ (miqdash) probably refers to the temple precincts (see Ps 68:35; Jer 51:51).

[73:17]  ¹³ tn Heb “I discerned their end.” At the temple the psalmist perhaps received an oracle of deliverance announcing his vindication and the demise of the wicked (see Ps 12) or heard songs of confidence (for example, Ps 11), wisdom psalms (for example, Pss 1, 37), and hymns (for example, Ps 112) that describe the eventual downfall of the proud and wealthy.

[75:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “I will declare forever.” The object needs to be supplied; God’s just judgment is in view.

[78:34]  ¹⁵ tn Or “killed them,” that is, killed large numbers of them.

[78:34]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “they sought him.”

[81:4]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “because a statute for Israel [is] it.”

[83:13]  ¹⁸ tn Or “tumbleweed.” The Hebrew noun גַּלְגַּל (galgal) refers to a “wheel” or, metaphorically, to a whirling wind (see Ps 77:18). If taken in the latter sense here, one could understand the term as a metonymical reference to dust blown by a whirlwind (cf. NRSV “like whirling dust”). However, HALOT 190 s.v. II גַּלְגַּל understands the noun as a homonym referring to a “dead thistle” here and in Isa 17:13. The parallel line, which refers to קַשׁ (qash, “chaff”), favors this interpretation.

[83:13]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “before.”

[89:26]  ²⁰ sn You are my father. The Davidic king was viewed as God’s “son” (see 2 Sam 7:14; Ps 2:7). The idiom reflects ancient Near Eastern adoption language associated with covenants of grant, by which a lord would reward a faithful subject by elevating him to special status, referred to as “sonship.” Like a son, the faithful subject received an “inheritance,” viewed as an unconditional, eternal gift. Such gifts usually took the form of land and/or an enduring dynasty. See M. Weinfeld, “The Covenant of Grant in the Old Testament and in the Ancient Near East,” JAOS 90 (1970): 184-203, for general discussion and some striking extra-biblical parallels.

[89:26]  ²¹ tn Heb “the rocky summit of my deliverance.”

[106:14]  ²² sn They had an insatiable craving. This is described in Num 11:4-35.

[106:14]  ²³ tn Heb “they craved [with] a craving.”

[106:14]  ²⁴ tn Heb “they tested God.”

[106:21]  ²⁵ tn Heb “forgot.”

[139:19]  ²⁶ tn The Hebrew particle אִם (’im, “if”) and following prefixed verbal form here express a wish (see Pss 81:8; 95:7, as well as GKC 321 §109.b).

[139:19]  ²⁷ tn Heb “men of bloodshed.”