Mazmur 84:11

84:11 For the Lord God is our sovereign protector. ¹ 

The Lord bestows favor ²  and honor;

he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity. ³ 

Mazmur 96:10

96:10 Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!

The world is established, it cannot be moved.

He judges the nations fairly.”

Mazmur 106:23

106:23 He threatened ⁴  to destroy them,

but ⁵  Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him ⁶ 

and turned back his destructive anger. ⁷ 

Mazmur 109:16

109:16 For he never bothered to show kindness; ⁸ 

he harassed the oppressed and needy,

and killed the disheartened. ⁹ 

Mazmur 144:2

144:2 who loves me ¹⁰  and is my stronghold,

my refuge ¹¹  and my deliverer,

my shield and the one in whom I take shelter,

who makes nations submit to me. ¹² 

[84:11]  ¹ tn Heb “[is] a sun and a shield.” The epithet “sun,” though rarely used of Israel’s God in the OT, was a well-attested royal title in the ancient Near East. For several examples from Ugaritic texts, the Amarna letters, and Assyrian royal inscriptions, see R. B. Chisholm, “An Exegetical and Theological Study of Psalm 18/2 Samuel 22” (Th.D. diss., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1983), 131, n. 2.

[84:11]  ² tn Or “grace.”

[84:11]  ³ tn Heb “he does not withhold good to those walking in integrity.”

[106:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he said.”

[106:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “if not,” that is, “[and would have] if [Moses] had not.”

[106:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “stood in the gap before him.”

[106:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “to turn back his anger from destroying.”

[106:23]  sn Verses 19-23 describe the events of Exod 32:1-35.

[109:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “he did not remember to do loyal love.”

[109:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he chased an oppressed and needy man, and one timid of heart to put [him] to death.”

[144:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “my loyal love,” which is probably an abbreviated form of “the God of my loyal love” (see Ps 59:10, 17).

[144:2]  ¹¹ tn Or “my elevated place.”

[144:2]  ¹² tn Heb “the one who subdues nations beneath me.”