1 Raja-raja 8:48-50

8:48 When they return to you with all their heart and being ¹  in the land where they are held prisoner, ²  and direct their prayers to you toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor, ³  8:49 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help ⁴  and vindicate them. ⁵  8:50 Forgive all the rebellious acts of your sinful people and cause their captors to have mercy on them. ⁶ 

Mazmur 55:18

55:18 He will rescue ⁷  me and protect me from those who attack me, ⁸ 

even though ⁹  they greatly outnumber me. ¹⁰ 

Mazmur 55:1

Psalm 55 ¹¹ 

For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a well-written song ¹²  by David.

55:1 Listen, O God, to my prayer!

Do not ignore ¹³  my appeal for mercy!

1 Tesalonika 5:17-18

5:17 constantly pray, 5:18 in everything give thanks. For this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

[8:48]  ¹ tn Or “soul.”

[8:48]  ² tn Heb “in the land of their enemies.”

[8:48]  ³ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[8:49]  ⁴ tn Heb “their prayer and their request for help.”

[8:49]  ⁵ tn Heb “and accomplish their justice.”

[8:50]  ⁶ tn Heb “and forgive your people who have sinned against you, [forgive] all their rebellious acts by which they rebelled against you, and grant them mercy before their captors so they will show them mercy.”

[55:18]  ⁷ tn The perfect verbal form is here used rhetorically to indicate that the action is certain to take place (the so-called perfect of certitude).

[55:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “he will redeem in peace my life from [those who] draw near to me.”

[55:18]  ⁹ tn Or “for.”

[55:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “among many they are against me.” For other examples of the preposition עִמָּד (’immad) used in the sense of “at, against,” see HALOT 842 s.v.; BDB 767 s.v.; IBHS 219 §11.2.14b.

[55:1]  ¹¹ sn Psalm 55. The suffering and oppressed author laments that one of his friends has betrayed him, but he is confident that God will vindicate him by punishing his deceitful enemies.

[55:1]  ¹² tn The meaning of the Hebrew term מַשְׂכִּיל (maskil) is uncertain. See the note on the phrase “well-written song” in the superscription of Ps 52.

[55:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “hide yourself from.”