Mazmur 17:2

17:2 Make a just decision on my behalf! ¹ 

Decide what is right! ² 

Mazmur 25:17

25:17 Deliver me from my distress; ³ 

rescue me from my suffering! ⁴ 

Mazmur 37:6

37:6 He will vindicate you in broad daylight,

and publicly defend your just cause. ⁵ 

Mazmur 73:7

73:7 Their prosperity causes them to do wrong; ⁶ 

their thoughts are sinful. ⁷ 

Mazmur 78:16

78:16 He caused streams to flow from the rock,

and made the water flow like rivers.

Mazmur 104:23

104:23 Men then go out to do their work,

and labor away until evening. ⁸ 

Mazmur 105:37

105:37 He brought his people ⁹  out enriched ¹⁰  with silver and gold;

none of his tribes stumbled.

Mazmur 105:43

105:43 When he led his people out, they rejoiced;

his chosen ones shouted with joy. ¹¹ 

Mazmur 107:14

107:14 He brought them out of the utter darkness, ¹² 

and tore off their shackles.

Mazmur 109:7

109:7 When he is judged, he will be found ¹³  guilty! ¹⁴ 

Then his prayer will be regarded as sinful.

Mazmur 136:11

136:11 and led Israel out from their midst,

for his loyal love endures,

[17:2]  ¹ tn Heb “From before you may my justice come out.” The prefixed verbal form יָצָא (yatsa’) could be taken as an imperfect, but following the imperatives in v. 1, it is better understood as a jussive of prayer.

[17:2]  ² tn Heb “May your eyes look at what is right.” The prefixed verbal form is understood as jussive. (See also the preceding note on the word “behalf.”)

[25:17]  ³ tc Heb “the distresses of my heart, they make wide.” The text makes little if any sense as it stands, unless this is an otherwise unattested intransitive use of the Hiphil of רָחַב (rakhav, “be wide”). It is preferable to emend the form הִרְחִיבוּ (hirkhivu; Hiphil perfect third plural “they make wide”) to הַרְחֵיב (harkhev; Hiphil imperative masculine singular “make wide”). (The final vav [ו] can be joined to the following word and taken as a conjunction.) In this case one can translate, “[in/from] the distresses of my heart, make wide [a place for me],” that is, “deliver me from the distress I am experiencing.” For the expression “make wide [a place for me],” see Ps 4:1.

[25:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “from my distresses lead me out.”

[37:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he will bring out like light your vindication, and your just cause like noonday.”

[73:7]  ⁶ tc The MT reads “it goes out from fatness their eye,” which might be paraphrased, “their eye protrudes [or “bulges”] because of fatness.” This in turn might refer to their greed; their eyes “bug out” when they see rich food or produce (the noun חֵלֶב [khelev, “fatness”] sometimes refers to such food or produce). However, when used with the verb יָצָא (yatsa’, “go out”) the preposition מִן (“from”) more naturally indicates source. For this reason it is preferable to emend עֵינֵמוֹ (’enemo, “their eye”) to עֲוֹנָמוֹ, (’avonamo, “their sin”) and read, “and their sin proceeds forth from fatness,” that is, their prosperity gives rise to their sinful attitudes. If one follows this textual reading, another interpretive option is to take חֵלֶב (“fatness”) in the sense of “unreceptive, insensitive” (see its use in Ps 17:10). In this case, the sin of the wicked proceeds forth from their spiritual insensitivity.

[73:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “the thoughts of [their] heart [i.e., mind] cross over” (i.e., violate God’s moral boundary, see Ps 17:3).

[104:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “man goes out to his work, and to his labor until evening.”

[105:37]  ⁹ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Lord’s people) has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[105:37]  ¹⁰ tn The word “enriched” is supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

[105:43]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he led his people out with joy, with a ringing cry, his chosen ones.”

[107:14]  ¹² tn Heb “darkness and deep darkness.” See the note on the word “darkness” in v. 10.

[109:7]  ¹³ tn The prefixed verbal form could be taken as a jussive, but the use of the imperfect form in the following line suggests that v. 7 anticipates the outcome of the accusation envisioned in v. 6.

[109:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he will go out [as] a criminal” (that is, guilty).