Mazmur 37:32

37:32 Evil men set an ambush for the godly

and try to kill them. ¹ 

Mazmur 57:6

57:6 They have prepared a net to trap me; ² 

I am discouraged. ³ 

They have dug a pit for me. ⁴ 

They will fall ⁵  into it! (Selah)

Mazmur 89:51

89:51 Your enemies, O Lord, hurl insults;

they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps. ⁶ 

[37:32]  ¹ tn Heb “an evil [one] watches the godly [one] and seeks to kill him.” The singular forms are used in a representative sense; the typical evildoer and godly individual are in view. The active participles describe characteristic behavior.

[57:6]  ² tn Heb “for my feet.”

[57:6]  ³ tn Heb “my life bends low.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) with a pronominal suffix is often equivalent to a pronoun, especially in poetry (see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 4.a).

[57:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “before me.”

[57:6]  ⁵ tn The perfect form is used rhetorically here to express the psalmist’s certitude. The demise of the enemies is so certain that he can speak of it as already accomplished.

[89:51]  ⁶ tn Heb “[by] which your enemies, O Lord, taunt, [by] which they taunt [at] the heels of your anointed one.”