Mazmur 68:25-27

68:25 Singers walk in front;

musicians follow playing their stringed instruments, ¹ 

in the midst of young women playing tambourines. ² 

68:26 In your large assemblies praise God,

the Lord, in the assemblies of Israel! ³ 

68:27 There is little Benjamin, their ruler, ⁴ 

and the princes of Judah in their robes, ⁵ 

along with the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.

Mazmur 73:17

73:17 Then I entered the precincts of God’s temple, ⁶ 

and understood the destiny of the wicked. ⁷ 

Mazmur 102:20

102:20 in order to hear the painful cries of the prisoners,

and to set free those condemned to die, ⁸ 

[68:25]  ¹ tn Heb “after [are] the stringed instrument players.”

[68:25]  ² sn To celebrate a military victory, women would play tambourines (see Exod 15:20; Judg 11:34; 1 Sam 18:6).

[68:26]  ³ tn Heb “from the fountain of Israel,” which makes little, if any, sense here. The translation assumes an emendation to בְּמִקְרָאֵי (bÿmiqra’ey, “in the assemblies of [Israel]”).

[68:27]  ⁴ sn Little Benjamin, their ruler. This may allude to the fact that Israel’s first king, Saul, was from the tribe of Benjamin.

[68:27]  ⁵ tc The MT reads רִגְמָתָם (rigmatam), which many derive from רָגַם (ragam, “to kill by stoning”) and translates, “[in] their heaps,” that is, in large numbers.

[73:17]  ⁶ tn The plural of the term מִקְדָּשׁ (miqdash) probably refers to the temple precincts (see Ps 68:35; Jer 51:51).

[73:17]  ⁷ 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.

[102:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “the sons of death.” The phrase “sons of death” (see also Ps 79:11) is idiomatic for those condemned to die.