Mazmur 37:18

37:18 The Lord watches over the innocent day by day ¹ 

and they possess a permanent inheritance. ² 

Mazmur 73:26

73:26 My flesh and my heart may grow weak, ³ 

but God always ⁴  protects my heart and gives me stability. ⁵ 

Mazmur 78:62

78:62 He delivered his people over to the sword,

and was angry with his chosen nation. ⁶ 

Mazmur 94:5

94:5 O Lord, they crush your people;

they oppress the nation that belongs to you. ⁷ 

Mazmur 95:5

95:5 The sea is his, for he made it.

His hands formed the dry land.

Mazmur 106:40

106:40 So the Lord was angry with his people ⁸ 

and despised the people who belong to him. ⁹ 

Mazmur 115:16

115:16 The heavens belong to the Lord, ¹⁰ 

but the earth he has given to mankind. ¹¹ 

Mazmur 136:22

136:22 as an inheritance to Israel his servant,

for his loyal love endures,

[37:18]  ¹ tn Heb “the Lord knows the days of the innocent ones.” He “knows” their days in the sense that he is intimately aware of and involved in their daily struggles. He meets their needs and sustains them.

[37:18]  ² tn Heb “and their inheritance is forever.”

[73:26]  ³ tn The Hebrew verb כָלָה (khalah, “to fail; to grow weak”) does not refer here to physical death per se, but to the physical weakness that sometimes precedes death (see Job 33:21; Pss 71:9; 143:7; Prov 5:11).

[73:26]  ⁴ tn Or “forever.”

[73:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “is the rocky summit of my heart and my portion.” The psalmist compares the Lord to a rocky summit where one could go for protection and to landed property, which was foundational to economic stability in ancient Israel.

[78:62]  ⁶ tn Heb “his inheritance.”

[94:5]  ⁷ tn Or “your inheritance.”

[106:40]  ⁸ tn Heb “the anger of the Lord burned against his people.”

[106:40]  ⁹ tn Heb “his inheritance.”

[115:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the heavens [are] heavens to the Lord.”

[115:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to the sons of man.”