Mazmur 7:11

7:11 God is a just judge;

he is angry throughout the day. ¹ 

Mazmur 57:2

57:2 I cry out for help to the sovereign God, ² 

to the God who vindicates ³  me.

Mazmur 144:10

144:10 the one who delivers ⁴  kings,

and rescued David his servant from a deadly ⁵  sword.

Mazmur 145:14

145:14 ⁶ The Lord supports all who fall,

and lifts up all who are bent over. ⁷ 

[7:11]  ¹ tn Heb “God (the divine name אֵל [’el] is used) is angry during all the day.” The verb זֹעֵם (zo’em) means “be indignant, be angry, curse.” Here God’s angry response to wrongdoing and injustice leads him to prepare to execute judgment as described in the following verses.

[57:2]  ² tn Heb “to God Most High.” The divine title “Most High” (עֶלְיוֹן, ’elyon) pictures God as the exalted ruler of the universe who vindicates the innocent and judges the wicked. See especially Ps 47:2.

[57:2]  ³ tn Or “avenges in favor of.”

[144:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “grants deliverance to.”

[144:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “harmful.”

[145:14]  ⁶ tc Psalm 145 is an acrostic psalm, with each successive verse beginning with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet. However, in the traditional Hebrew (Masoretic) text of Psalm 145 there is no verse beginning with the letter nun. One would expect such a verse to appear as the fourteenth verse, between the mem (מ) and samek (ס) verses. Several ancient witnesses, including one medieval Hebrew manuscript, the Qumran scroll from cave 11, the LXX, and the Syriac, supply the missing nun (נ) verse, which reads as follows: “The Lord is reliable in all his words, and faithful in all his deeds.” One might paraphrase this as follows: “The Lord’s words are always reliable; his actions are always faithful.” Scholars are divided as to the originality of this verse. L. C. Allen argues for its inclusion on the basis of structural considerations (Psalms 101-150 [WBC], 294-95), but there is no apparent explanation for why, if original, it would have been accidentally omitted. The psalm may be a partial acrostic, as in Pss 25 and 34 (see M. Dahood, Psalms [AB], 3:335). The glaring omission of the nun line would have invited a later redactor to add such a line.

[145:14]  ⁷ tn Perhaps “discouraged” (see Ps 57:6).