Mazmur 20:1

Psalm 20 ¹ 

For the music director; a psalm of David.

20:1 May the Lord answer ²  you ³  when you are in trouble; ⁴ 

may the God of Jacob ⁵  make you secure!

Mazmur 22:5

22:5 To you they cried out, and they were saved;

in you they trusted and they were not disappointed. ⁶ 

Mazmur 28:9

28:9 Deliver your people!

Empower ⁷  the nation that belongs to you! ⁸ 

Care for them like a shepherd and carry them in your arms ⁹  at all times! ¹⁰ 

Mazmur 33:18

33:18 Look, the Lord takes notice of his loyal followers, ¹¹ 

those who wait for him to demonstrate his faithfulness ¹² 

Mazmur 37:40

37:40 The Lord helps them and rescues them;

he rescues them from evil men and delivers them, ¹³ 

for they seek his protection.

Mazmur 41:12

41:12 As for me, you uphold ¹⁴  me because of my integrity; ¹⁵ 

you allow ¹⁶  me permanent access to your presence. ¹⁷ 

Mazmur 59:2

59:2 Deliver me from evildoers! ¹⁸ 

Rescue me from violent men! ¹⁹ 

Mazmur 68:10

68:10 for you live among them. ²⁰ 

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

Mazmur 71:15

71:15 I will tell about your justice,

and all day long proclaim your salvation, ²¹ 

though I cannot fathom its full extent. ²² 

Mazmur 74:22

74:22 Rise up, O God! Defend your honor! ²³ 

Remember how fools insult you all day long! ²⁴ 

Mazmur 78:71

78:71 He took him away from following the mother sheep, ²⁵ 

and made him the shepherd of Jacob, his people,

and of Israel, his chosen nation. ²⁶ 

Mazmur 89:30

89:30 If his sons reject my law

and disobey my regulations,

Mazmur 92:13

92:13 Planted in the Lord’s house,

they grow in the courts of our God.

Mazmur 92:15

92:15 So they proclaim that the Lord, my protector,

is just and never unfair. ²⁷ 

Mazmur 102:28

102:28 The children of your servants will settle down here,

and their descendants ²⁸  will live securely in your presence.” ²⁹ 

Mazmur 104:14

104:14 He provides grass ³⁰  for the cattle,

and crops for people to cultivate, ³¹ 

so they can produce food from the ground, ³² 

Mazmur 104:28

104:28 You give food to them and they receive it;

you open your hand and they are filled with food. ³³ 

Mazmur 106:4

106:4 Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people!

Pay attention to me, when you deliver,

Mazmur 119:116

119:116 Sustain me as you promised, ³⁴  so that I will live. ³⁵ 

Do not disappoint me! ³⁶ 

Mazmur 140:1

Psalm 140 ³⁷ 

For the music director; a psalm of David.

140:1 O Lord, rescue me from wicked men! ³⁸ 

Protect me from violent men, ³⁹ 

[20:1]  ¹ sn Psalm 20. The people pray for the king’s success in battle. When the king declares his assurance that the Lord will answer the people’s prayer, they affirm their confidence in God’s enablement.

[20:1]  ² tn The prefixed verbal forms here and in vv. 1b-5 are interpreted as jussives of prayer (cf. NEB, NIV, NRSV). Another option is to understand them as imperfects, “the Lord will answer,” etc. In this case the people declare their confidence that the Lord will intervene on behalf of the king and extend to him his favor.

[20:1]  ³ sn May the Lord answer you. The people address the king as they pray to the Lord.

[20:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “in a day of trouble.”

[20:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “the name of the God of Jacob.” God’s “name” refers metonymically to his very person and to the divine characteristics suggested by his name, in this case “God of Jacob,” which highlights his relationship to Israel.

[22:5]  ⁶ tn Or “were not ashamed.”

[28:9]  ⁷ tn Or “bless.”

[28:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “your inheritance.” The parallelism (note “your people”) indicates that Israel is in view.

[28:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “shepherd them and lift them up.”

[28:9]  sn The shepherd metaphor is sometimes associated with royal responsibility. See 2 Sam 5:2; 7:7; Mic 5:2-4).

[28:9]  ¹⁰ tn Or “forever.”

[33:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “look, the eye of the Lord [is] toward the ones who fear him.” The expression “the eye…[is] toward” here indicates recognition and the bestowing of favor. See Ps 34:15. The one who fears the Lord respects his sovereignty and obeys his commandments. See Ps 128:1; Prov 14:2.

[33:18]  ¹² tn Heb “for the ones who wait for his faithfulness.”

[37:40]  ¹³ tn The prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) consecutive carry on the generalizing tone of the preceding verse.

[41:12]  ¹⁴ tn Or “have upheld.” The perfect verbal form can be taken as generalizing/descriptive (present) or as a present perfect.

[41:12]  ¹⁵ sn Because of my integrity. See Pss 7:8; 25:21; 26:1, 11.

[41:12]  ¹⁶ tn The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive has the same aspectual function as the preceding perfect. It is either generalizing/descriptive (present) or has a present perfect nuance (“you have allowed”).

[41:12]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and you cause me to stand before you permanently.”

[59:2]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “from the workers of wickedness.”

[59:2]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “from men of bloodshed.”

[68:10]  ²⁰ 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.”

[71:15]  ²¹ tn Heb “my mouth declares your vindication, all the day your deliverance.”

[71:15]  ²² tn Heb “though I do not know [the] numbers,” that is, the tally of God’s just and saving acts. HALOT 768 s.v. סְפֹרוֹת understands the plural noun to mean “the art of writing.”

[74:22]  ²³ tn Or “defend your cause.”

[74:22]  ²⁴ tn Heb “remember your reproach from a fool all the day.”

[78:71]  ²⁵ tn Heb “from after the ewes he brought him.”

[78:71]  ²⁶ tn Heb “to shepherd Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.”

[92:15]  ²⁷ tn Heb “so that [they] proclaim that upright [is] the Lord, my rocky summit, and there is no injustice in him.”

[102:28]  ²⁸ tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”

[102:28]  ²⁹ tn Heb “before you will be established.”

[104:14]  ³⁰ tn Heb “causes the grass to sprout up.”

[104:14]  ³¹ tn Heb “for the service of man” (see Gen 2:5).

[104:14]  ³² tn Heb “to cause food to come out from the earth.”

[104:28]  ³³ tn Heb “they are satisfied [with] good.”

[119:116]  ³⁴ tn Heb “according to your word.”

[119:116]  ³⁵ tn The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

[119:116]  ³⁶ tn Heb “do not make me ashamed of my hope.” After the Hebrew verb בּוֹשׁ (bosh, “to be ashamed”) the preposition מִן (min, “from”) often introduces the reason for shame.

[140:1]  ³⁷ sn Psalm 140. The psalmist asks God to deliver him from his deadly enemies, calls judgment down upon them, and affirms his confidence in God’s justice.

[140:1]  ³⁸ tn Heb “from a wicked man.” The Hebrew uses the singular in a representative or collective sense (note the plural verbs in v. 2).

[140:1]  ³⁹ tn Heb “a man of violent acts.” The Hebrew uses the singular in a representative or collective sense (note the plural verbs in v. 2).