Mazmur 31:21

31:21 The Lord deserves praise ¹ 

for he demonstrated his amazing faithfulness to me when I was besieged by enemies. ² 

Mazmur 69:13

69:13 O Lord, may you hear my prayer and be favorably disposed to me! ³ 

O God, because of your great loyal love,

answer me with your faithful deliverance! ⁴ 

Mazmur 106:45

106:45 He remembered his covenant with them,

and relented ⁵  because of his great loyal love.

Mazmur 107:43

107:43 Whoever is wise, let him take note of these things!

Let them consider the Lord’s acts of loyal love!

Mazmur 117:2

117:2 For his loyal love towers ⁶  over us,

and the Lord’s faithfulness endures.

Praise the Lord!

[31:21]  ¹ tn Heb “blessed [be] the Lord.”

[31:21]  ² tn Heb “for he caused his faithfulness to be amazing to me in a besieged city.” The psalmist probably speaks figuratively here. He compares his crisis to being trapped in a besieged city, but the Lord answered his prayer for help. Verses 19-24 were apparently written after the Lord answered the prayer of vv. 1-18.

[69:13]  ³ tn Heb “as for me, [may] my prayer be to you, O Lord, [in] a time of favor.”

[69:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “O God, in the abundance of your loyal love, answer me in the faithfulness of your deliverance.”

[106:45]  ⁵ tn The Niphal of נָחַם (nakham) refers here to God relenting from a punishment already underway.

[117:2]  ⁶ tn For this sense of the Hebrew verb גָּבַר (gavar), see Ps 103:11 and L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 17, 19.