Text -- Psalms 94:20-23 (NET)

94:20 Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws. 94:21 They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent. 94:22 But the Lord will protect me, and my God will shelter me. 94:23 He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the Lord our God will destroy them.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 94:20

¹ tn Heb “a throne of destruction.” “Throne” stands here by metonymy for rulers who occupy thrones.

² tn Heb “Is a throne of destruction united to you, one that forms trouble upon a statute?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “Of course not!” The translation, while not preserving the interrogative form of the statement, reflects its rhetorical force.

NET Notes: Psa 94:21

¹ tn Or “attack.”

² tn Heb “the life of the blameless.”

³ tn Heb “and the blood of the innocent they declare guilty.”

NET Notes: Psa 94:22

¹ tn Heb “and the Lord has become my elevated place.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive is used in a rhetorical sense, describing an anticipated development as if it were already reality.

² tn Heb “and my God [has become] a rocky summit of my safety.”

NET Notes: Psa 94:23

¹ tn The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive is used in a rhetorical sense, describing an anticipated development as if it were already reality.

² tn Or “in.”