[31:21] 1 tn Heb “blessed [be] the
[31:21] 2 tn Heb “for he caused his faithfulness to be amazing to me in a besieged city.” The psalmist probably speaks figuratively here. He compares his crisis to being trapped in a besieged city, but the
[50:3] 3 tn According to GKC 322 §109.e, the jussive (note the negative particle אַל, ’al) is used rhetorically here “to express the conviction that something cannot or should not happen.”
[50:3] 4 tn Heb “fire before him devours, and around him it is very stormy.”