Mazmur 27:5-6

27:5 He will surely ¹  give me shelter ²  in the day of danger; ³ 

he will hide me in his home; ⁴ 

he will place me ⁵  on an inaccessible rocky summit. ⁶ 

27:6 Now I will triumph

over my enemies who surround me! ⁷ 

I will offer sacrifices in his dwelling place and shout for joy! ⁸ 

I will sing praises to the Lord!

[27:5]  ¹ tn Or “for he will.” The translation assumes the כִּי (ki) is asseverative here, rather than causal.

[27:5]  ² tn Heb “he will hide me in his hut.”

[27:5]  ³ tn Or “trouble.”

[27:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “tent.”

[27:5]  ⁵ tn The three imperfect verb forms in v. 5 anticipate a positive response to the prayer offered in vv. 7-12.

[27:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “on a rocky summit he lifts me up.” The Lord places the psalmist in an inaccessible place where his enemies cannot reach him. See Ps 18:2.

[27:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “and now my head will be lifted up over my enemies all around me.”

[27:6]  sn In vv. 1-3 the psalmist generalizes, but here we discover that he is facing a crisis and is under attack from enemies (see vv. 11-12).

[27:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “I will sacrifice in his tent sacrifices of a shout for joy” (that is, “sacrifices accompanied by a joyful shout”).