Mazmur 27:1

Psalm 27 ¹ 

By David.

27:1 The Lord delivers and vindicates me! ² 

I fear no one! ³ 

The Lord protects my life!

I am afraid of no one! ⁴ 

Yesaya 58:10

58:10 You must ⁵  actively help the hungry

and feed the oppressed. ⁶ 

Then your light will dispel the darkness, ⁷ 

and your darkness will be transformed into noonday. ⁸ 

¹ sn Psalm 27. The author is confident of the Lord’s protection and asks the Lord to vindicate him.

² tn Heb “the Lord [is] my light and my deliverance.” “Light” is often used as a metaphor for deliverance and the life/blessings it brings. See Pss 37:6; 97:11; 112:4; Isa 49:6; 51:4; Mic 7:8. Another option is that “light” refers here to divine guidance (see Ps 43:3).

³ tn Heb “Whom shall I fear?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “No one!”

⁴ tn Heb “Of whom shall I be afraid?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “No one!”

⁵ tn Heb “if you.” See the note on “you must” in v. 9b.

⁶ tn Heb “If you furnish for the hungry [with] your being, and the appetite of the oppressed you satisfy.”

⁷ tn Heb “will rise in the darkness.”

⁸ tn Heb “and your darkness [will be] like noonday.”