Mazmur 28:9

28:9 Deliver your people!

Empower ¹  the nation that belongs to you! ² 

Care for them like a shepherd and carry them in your arms ³  at all times! ⁴ 

Mazmur 122:5-8

122:5 Indeed, ⁵  the leaders sit ⁶  there on thrones and make legal decisions,

on the thrones of the house of David. ⁷ 

122:6 Pray ⁸  for the peace of Jerusalem!

May those who love her prosper! ⁹ 

122:7 May there be peace inside your defenses,

and prosperity ¹⁰  inside your fortresses! ¹¹ 

122:8 For the sake of my brothers and my neighbors

I will say, “May there be peace in you!”

Mazmur 128:5

128:5 May the Lord bless you ¹²  from Zion,

that you might see ¹³  Jerusalem ¹⁴  prosper

all the days of your life,

Mazmur 129:8

129:8 Those who pass by will not say, ¹⁵ 

“May you experience the Lord’s blessing!

We pronounce a blessing on you in the name of the Lord.”

Mazmur 134:3

134:3 May the Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth,

bless you ¹⁶  from Zion! ¹⁷ 

[28:9]  ¹ tn Or “bless.”

[28:9]  ² tn Heb “your inheritance.” The parallelism (note “your people”) indicates that Israel is in view.

[28:9]  ³ tn Heb “shepherd them and lift them up.”

[28:9]  sn The shepherd metaphor is sometimes associated with royal responsibility. See 2 Sam 5:2; 7:7; Mic 5:2-4).

[28:9]  ⁴ tn Or “forever.”

[122:5]  ⁵ tn Or “for.”

[122:5]  ⁶ tn Or “sat.”

[122:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “Indeed, there they sit [on] thrones for judgment, [on] thrones [belonging] to the house of David.”

[122:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “ask [for].”

[122:6]  ⁹ tn Or “be secure.”

[122:7]  ¹⁰ tn or “security.”

[122:7]  ¹¹ tn The psalmist uses second feminine singular pronominal forms to address personified Jerusalem.

[128:5]  ¹² tn The prefixed verbal form is understood as a jussive of prayer (note the imperatives that are subordinated to this clause in vv. 5b-6a). Having described the blessings that typically come to the godly, the psalmist concludes by praying that this ideal may become reality for the representative godly man being addressed.

[128:5]  ¹³ tn The imperative with prefixed vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding jussive.

[128:5]  ¹⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[129:8]  ¹⁵ tn The perfect verbal form is used for rhetorical effect; it describes an anticipated development as if it were already reality.

[134:3]  ¹⁶ tn The pronominal suffix is second masculine singular, suggesting that the servants addressed in vv. 1-2 are responding to the psalmist.

[134:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “may the Lord bless you from Zion, the maker of heaven and earth.”