Kejadian 19:18

19:18 But Lot said to them, “No, please, Lord! ¹ 

Mazmur 115:13

115:13 He will bless his loyal followers, ² 

both young and old. ³ 

Mazmur 11:1

Psalm 11 ⁴ 

For the music director; by David.

11:1 In the Lord I have taken shelter. ⁵ 

How can you say to me, ⁶ 

“Flee to a mountain like a bird! ⁷ 

[19:18]  ¹ tn Or “my lords.” See the following note on the problem of identifying the addressee here. The Hebrew term is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[115:13]  ² tn Heb “the fearers of the Lord.”

[115:13]  ³ tn Heb “the small along with the great.” The translation assumes that “small” and “great” here refer to age (see 2 Chr 15:13). Another option is to translate “both the insignificant and the prominent” (see Job 3:19; cf. NEB “high and low alike”).

[11:1]  ⁴ sn Psalm 11. The psalmist rejects the advice to flee from his dangerous enemies. Instead he affirms his confidence in God’s just character and calls down judgment on evildoers.

[11:1]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew perfect verbal form probably refers here to a completed action with continuing results.

[11:1]  ⁶ tn The pronominal suffix attached to נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) is equivalent to a personal pronoun. See Ps 6:3.

[11:1]  ⁷ tc The MT is corrupt here. The Kethib (consonantal text) reads: “flee [masculine plural!] to your [masculine plural!] mountain, bird.” The Qere (marginal reading) has “flee” in a feminine singular form, agreeing grammatically with the addressee, the feminine noun “bird.” Rather than being a second masculine plural pronominal suffix, the ending כֶם- (-khem) attached to “mountain” is better interpreted as a second feminine singular pronominal suffix followed by an enclitic mem (ם). “Bird” may be taken as vocative (“O bird”) or as an adverbial accusative of manner (“like a bird”). Either way, the psalmist’s advisers compare him to a helpless bird whose only option in the face of danger is to fly away to an inaccessible place.