Mazmur 69:34-35

69:34 Let the heavens and the earth praise him,

along with the seas and everything that swims in them!

69:35 For God will deliver Zion

and rebuild the cities of Judah,

and his people ¹  will again live in them and possess Zion. ² 

Mazmur 85:9-12

85:9 Certainly his loyal followers will soon experience his deliverance; ³ 

then his splendor will again appear in our land. ⁴ 

85:10 Loyal love and faithfulness meet; ⁵ 

deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. ⁶ 

85:11 Faithfulness grows from the ground,

and deliverance looks down from the sky. ⁷ 

85:12 Yes, the Lord will bestow his good blessings, ⁸ 

and our land will yield ⁹  its crops.

Mazmur 96:11-13

96:11 Let the sky rejoice, and the earth be happy!

Let the sea and everything in it shout!

96:12 Let the fields and everything in them celebrate!

Then let the trees of the forest shout with joy

96:13 before the Lord, for he comes!

For he comes to judge the earth!

He judges the world fairly, ¹⁰ 

and the nations in accordance with his justice. ¹¹ 

[69:35]  ¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (God’s people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[69:35]  ² tn Heb “it.” The third feminine singular pronominal suffix probably refers to “Zion” (see Pss 48:12; 102:14); thus the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[85:9]  ³ tn Heb “certainly his deliverance [is] near to those who fear him.”

[85:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “to dwell, glory, in our land.” “Glory” is the subject of the infinitive. The infinitive with -לְ (lÿ), “to dwell,” probably indicates result here (“then”). When God delivers his people and renews his relationship with them, he will once more reveal his royal splendor in the land.

[85:10]  ⁵ tn The psalmist probably uses the perfect verbal forms in v. 10 in a dramatic or rhetorical manner, describing what he anticipates as if it were already occurring or had already occurred.

[85:10]  ⁶ sn Deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. The psalmist personifies these abstract qualities to emphasize that God’s loyal love and faithfulness will yield deliverance and peace for his people.

[85:11]  ⁷ sn The psalmist already sees undeniable signs of God’s faithfulness and expects deliverance to arrive soon.

[85:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “what is good.”

[85:12]  ⁹ tn Both “bestow” and “yield” translate the same Hebrew verb (נָתַן, natan). The repetition of the word emphasizes that agricultural prosperity is the direct result of divine blessing.

[96:13]  ¹⁰ tn The verbal forms in v. 13 probably describe God’s typical, characteristic behavior, though they may depict in dramatic fashion the outworking of divine judgment or anticipate a future judgment of worldwide proportions, in which case they could be translated “will judge the world.”

[96:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and the nations with his integrity.”