Mazmur 16:7

16:7 I will praise ¹  the Lord who ²  guides ³  me;

yes, during the night I reflect and learn. ⁴ 

Mazmur 66:16

66:16 Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God! ⁵ 

I will declare what he has done for me.

Mazmur 68:10

68:10 for you live among them. ⁶ 

You sustain the oppressed with your good blessings, O God.

Mazmur 69:9

69:9 Certainly ⁷  zeal for ⁸  your house ⁹  consumes me;

I endure the insults of those who insult you. ¹⁰ 

Mazmur 78:54

78:54 He brought them to the border of his holy land,

to this mountainous land ¹¹  which his right hand ¹²  acquired.

Mazmur 102:13

102:13 You will rise up and have compassion on Zion. ¹³ 

For it is time to have mercy on her,

for the appointed time has come.

[16:7]  ¹ tn Heb “bless,” that is, “proclaim as worthy of praise.”

[16:7]  ² tn Or “because.”

[16:7]  ³ tn Or “counsels, advises.”

[16:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “yes, [during] nights my kidneys instruct [or “correct”] me.” The “kidneys” are viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s moral character (see Ps 26:2). In the quiet darkness the Lord speaks to his inner being, as it were, and enables him to grow in moral understanding.

[66:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “all of the fearers of God.”

[68:10]  ⁶ tn The meaning of the Hebrew text is unclear; it appears to read, “your animals, they live in it,” but this makes little, if any, sense in this context. Some suggest that חָיָּה (khayah) is a rare homonym here, meaning “community” (BDB 312 s.v.) or “dwelling place” (HALOT 310 s.v. III *הַיָּה). In this case one may take “your community/dwelling place” as appositional to the third feminine singular pronominal suffix at the end of v. 9, the antecedent of which is “your inheritance.” The phrase יָשְׁבוּ־בָהּ (yashvu-vah, “they live in it”) may then be understood as an asyndetic relative clause modifying “your community/dwelling place.” A literal translation of vv. 9b-10a would be, “when it [your inheritance] is tired, you sustain it, your community/dwelling place in [which] they live.”

[69:9]  ⁷ tn Or “for.” This verse explains that the psalmist’s suffering is due to his allegiance to God.

[69:9]  ⁸ tn Or “devotion to.”

[69:9]  ⁹ sn God’s house, the temple, here represents by metonymy God himself.

[69:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the insults of those who insult you fall upon me.”

[69:9]  sn Jn 2:17 applies the first half of this verse to Jesus’ ministry in the context of John’s account of Jesus cleansing the temple.

[78:54]  ¹¹ tn Heb “this mountain.” The whole land of Canaan seems to be referred to here. In Exod 15:17 the promised land is called the “mountain of your [i.e., God’s] inheritance.”

[78:54]  ¹² tn The “right hand” here symbolizes God’s military strength (see v. 55).

[102:13]  ¹³ tn The imperfect verbal forms are understood as expressing the psalmist’s confidence in God’s intervention. Another option is to take them as expressing the psalmist’s request or wish, “You, rise up and have compassion!”