Mazmur 4:3
Konteks4:3 Realize that 1 the Lord shows the godly special favor; 2
the Lord responds 3 when I cry out to him.
Mazmur 40:9
Konteks40:9 I have told the great assembly 4 about your justice. 5
Look! I spare no words! 6
O Lord, you know this is true.
Mazmur 42:5
Konteks42:5 Why are you depressed, 7 O my soul? 8
Why are you upset? 9
Wait for God!
For I will again give thanks
to my God for his saving intervention. 10
[4:3] 1 tn Heb “and know that.”
[4:3] 2 tn Heb “that the
[40:9] 4 sn The great assembly is also mentioned in Pss 22:25 and 35:18.
[40:9] 5 tn Heb “I proclaim justice in the great assembly.” Though “justice” appears without a pronoun here, the
[40:9] 6 tn Heb “Look! My lips I do not restrain.”
[42:5] 7 tn Heb “Why do you bow down?”
[42:5] 8 sn For poetic effect the psalmist addresses his soul, or inner self.
[42:5] 9 tn Heb “and [why] are you in turmoil upon me?” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive here carries on the descriptive present nuance of the preceding imperfect. See GKC 329 §111.t.
[42:5] 10 tc Heb “for again I will give him thanks, the saving acts of his face.” The verse division in the Hebrew text is incorrect. אֱלֹהַי (’elohay, “my God”) at the beginning of v. 7 belongs with the end of v. 6 (see the corresponding refrains in 42:11 and 43:5, both of which end with “my God” after “saving acts of my face”). The Hebrew term פָּנָיו (panayv, “his face”) should be emended to פְּנֵי (pÿney, “face of”). The emended text reads, “[for] the saving acts of the face of my God,” that is, the saving acts associated with God’s presence/intervention.