Mazmur 34:22

34:22 The Lord rescues his servants; ¹ 

all who take shelter in him escape punishment. ² 

Mazmur 63:11

63:11 But the king ³  will rejoice in God;

everyone who takes oaths in his name ⁴  will boast,

for the mouths of those who speak lies will be shut up. ⁵ 

[34:22]  ¹ tn Heb “redeems the life of his servants.” The Hebrew participial form suggests such deliverance is characteristic.

[34:22]  ² tn “Taking shelter” in the Lord is an idiom for seeking his protection. Seeking his protection presupposes and even demonstrates the subject’s loyalty to the Lord. In the psalms those who “take shelter” in the Lord are contrasted with the wicked and equated with those who love, fear, and serve the Lord (Pss 2:12; 5:11-12; 31:19).

[63:11]  ³ sn The psalmist probably refers to himself in the third person here.

[63:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “who swears [an oath] by him.”

[63:11]  ⁵ tn The Niphal of this verb occurs only here and in Gen 8:2, where it is used of God “stopping” or “damming up” the great deep as he brought the flood to an end.