Mazmur 19:3

19:3 There is no actual speech or word,

nor is its ¹  voice literally heard.

Mazmur 55:13

55:13 But it is you, ²  a man like me, ³ 

my close friend in whom I confided. ⁴ 

Mazmur 77:5

77:5 I thought about the days of old,

about ancient times. ⁵ 

Mazmur 52:5

52:5 Yet ⁶  God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. ⁷ 

He will scoop you up ⁸  and remove you from your home; ⁹ 

he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

[19:3]  ¹ tn Heb “their.” The antecedent of the plural pronoun is “heavens” (v. 1).

[55:13]  ² sn It is you. The psalmist addresses the apparent ringleader of the opposition, an individual who was once his friend.

[55:13]  ³ tn Heb “a man according to my value,” i.e., “a person such as I.”

[55:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “my close friend, one known by me.”

[77:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “the years of antiquity.”

[52:5]  ⁶ tn The adverb גַּם (gam, “also; even”) is translated here in an adversative sense (“yet”). It highlights the contrastive correspondence between the evildoer’s behavior and God’s response.

[52:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “will tear you down forever.”

[52:5]  ⁸ tn This rare verb (חָתָה, khatah) occurs only here and in Prov 6:27; 25:22; Isa 30:14.

[52:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “from [your] tent.”