Mazmur 81:8

81:8 I said, ¹  ‘Listen, my people!

I will warn ²  you!

O Israel, if only you would obey me! ³ 

Mazmur 89:27

89:27 I will appoint him to be my firstborn son, ⁴ 

the most exalted of the earth’s kings.

Mazmur 89:30

89:30 If his sons reject my law

and disobey my regulations,

Mazmur 92:15

92:15 So they proclaim that the Lord, my protector,

is just and never unfair. ⁵ 

[81:8]  ¹ tn The words “I said” are supplied in the translation for clarification. Verses 8-10 appear to recall what the Lord commanded the generation of Israelites that experienced the events described in v. 7. Note the statement in v. 11, “my people did not listen to me.”

[81:8]  ² tn Or perhaps “command.”

[81:8]  ³ tn The Hebrew particle אִם (“if”) and following prefixed verbal form here express a wish (GKC 321 §109.b). Note that the apodosis (the “then” clause of the conditional sentence) is suppressed.

[89:27]  ⁴ sn The firstborn son typically had special status and received special privileges.

[92:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “so that [they] proclaim that upright [is] the Lord, my rocky summit, and there is no injustice in him.”