Mazmur 89:16-17

89:16 They rejoice in your name all day long,

and are vindicated ¹  by your justice.

89:17 For you give them splendor and strength. ² 

By your favor we are victorious. ³ 

Mazmur 20:1

Psalm 20 ⁴ 

For the music director; a psalm of David.

20:1 May the Lord answer ⁵  you ⁶  when you are in trouble; ⁷ 

may the God of Jacob ⁸  make you secure!

Mazmur 20:5

20:5 Then we will shout for joy over your ⁹  victory;

we will rejoice ¹⁰  in the name of our God!

May the Lord grant all your requests!

Mazmur 91:14

91:14 The Lord says, ¹¹ 

“Because he is devoted to me, I will deliver him;

I will protect him ¹²  because he is loyal to me. ¹³ 

Mazmur 91:1

Psalm 91 ¹⁴ 

91:1 As for you, the one who lives ¹⁵  in the shelter of the sovereign One, ¹⁶ 

and resides in the protective shadow ¹⁷  of the mighty king ¹⁸  –

1 Samuel 2:1

Hannah Exalts the Lord in Prayer

2:1 Hannah prayed, ¹⁹ 

“My heart rejoices in the Lord;

my horn ²⁰  is exalted high because of the Lord.

I loudly denounce ²¹  my enemies,

for I am happy that you delivered me. ²² 

Yohanes 17:6

Jesus Prays for the Disciples

17:6 “I have revealed ²³  your name to the men ²⁴  you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, ²⁵  and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed ²⁶  your word.

Yohanes 17:11

17:11 I ²⁷  am no longer in the world, but ²⁸  they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe ²⁹  in your name ³⁰  that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. ³¹ 

Yohanes 17:26

17:26 I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, ³²  so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”

[89:16]  ¹ tn Heb “are lifted up.”

[89:17]  ² tn Heb “for the splendor of their strength [is] you.”

[89:17]  ³ tn Heb “you lift up our horn,” or if one follows the marginal reading (Qere), “our horn is lifted up.” The horn of an ox underlies the metaphor (see Deut 33:17; 1 Kgs 22:11; Ps 92:10). The horn of the wild ox is frequently a metaphor for military strength; the idiom “exalt/lift up the horn” signifies military victory (see 1 Sam 2:10; Pss 75:10; 89:24; 92:10; Lam 2:17).

[20:1]  ⁴ sn Psalm 20. The people pray for the king’s success in battle. When the king declares his assurance that the Lord will answer the people’s prayer, they affirm their confidence in God’s enablement.

[20:1]  ⁵ tn The prefixed verbal forms here and in vv. 1b-5 are interpreted as jussives of prayer (cf. NEB, NIV, NRSV). Another option is to understand them as imperfects, “the Lord will answer,” etc. In this case the people declare their confidence that the Lord will intervene on behalf of the king and extend to him his favor.

[20:1]  ⁶ sn May the Lord answer you. The people address the king as they pray to the Lord.

[20:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “in a day of trouble.”

[20:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “the name of the God of Jacob.” God’s “name” refers metonymically to his very person and to the divine characteristics suggested by his name, in this case “God of Jacob,” which highlights his relationship to Israel.

[20:5]  ⁹ sn Your victory. Here the king is addressed (see v. 1).

[20:5]  ¹⁰ tc The Hebrew verb דָּגַל (dagal) occurs only here in the Qal. If accepted as original, it may carry the nuance “raise a banner,” but it is preferable to emend the form to נגיל (“we will rejoice”) which provides better parallelism with “shout for joy” and fits well with the prepositional phrase “in the name of our God” (see Ps 89:16).

[91:14]  ¹¹ tn The words “the Lord says” are supplied in the translation to clarify that the words which follow are the Lord’s oracle of assurance.

[91:14]  ¹² tn Or “make him secure” (Heb “set him on high”).

[91:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “because he knows my name” (see Ps 9:10).

[91:1]  ¹⁴ sn Psalm 91. In this psalm an individual (perhaps a priest) addresses one who has sought shelter in the Lord and assures him that God will protect him from danger (vv. 1-13). In vv. 14-16 God himself promises to keep his loyal follower safe.

[91:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “[O] one who lives.”

[91:1]  ¹⁶ tn Traditionally “the Most High.”

[91:1]  ¹⁷ sn The Lord is compared here to a bird who protects its young under the shadow of its wings (see v. 4).

[91:1]  ¹⁸ sn The divine name used here is “Shaddai” (שַׁדַּי, shadday; see also Ps 68:14). Shaddai (or El Shaddai) is the mighty king (sovereign judge) of the world who grants life/blesses and kills/judges. In Genesis he blesses the patriarchs with fertility and promises numerous descendants. Outside Genesis he both blesses/protects and takes away life/happiness.

[2:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “prayed and said.” This is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified in the translation.

[2:1]  ²⁰ sn Horns of animals have always functioned as both offensive and defensive weapons for them. As a figure of speech the horn is therefore often used in the Bible as a symbol of human strength (see also in v. 10). The allusion in v. 1 to the horn being lifted high suggests a picture of an animal elevating its head in a display of strength or virility.

[2:1]  ²¹ tn Heb “my mouth opens wide against.”

[2:1]  ²² tn Heb “for I rejoice in your deliverance.”

[17:6]  ²³ tn Or “made known,” “disclosed.”

[17:6]  ²⁴ tn Here “men” is retained as a translation for ἀνθρώποις (anqrwpoi") rather than the more generic “people” because in context it specifically refers to the eleven men Jesus had chosen as apostles (Judas had already departed, John 13:30). If one understands the referent here to be the broader group of Jesus’ followers that included both men and women, a translation like “to the people” should be used here instead.

[17:6]  ²⁵ tn Grk “Yours they were.”

[17:6]  ²⁶ tn Or “have kept.”

[17:11]  ²⁷ tn Grk And I.” The conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has not been translated here in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.

[17:11]  ²⁸ tn The context indicates that this should be translated as an adversative or contrastive conjunction.

[17:11]  ²⁹ tn Or “protect them”; Grk “keep them.”

[17:11]  ³⁰ tn Or “by your name.”

[17:11]  ³¹ tn The second repetition of “one” is implied, and is supplied here for clarity.

[17:26]  ³² tn The translation “will continue to make it known” is proposed by R. E. Brown (John [AB], 2:773).