2:7 The Lord impoverishes and makes wealthy;
he humbles and he exalts.
For the music director; a psalm of David.
31:1 In you, O Lord, I have taken shelter!
Never let me be humiliated!
Vindicate me by rescuing me! 5
71:2 Vindicate me by rescuing me! 6
Listen to me! 7 Deliver me! 8
A psalm of David.
143:1 O Lord, hear my prayer!
Pay attention to my plea for help!
Because of your faithfulness and justice, answer me!
6:4 In fact, I brought you up from the land of Egypt,
I delivered you from that place of slavery.
I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead you. 10
6:5 My people, recall how King Balak of Moab planned to harm you, 11
how Balaam son of Beor responded to him.
Recall how you journeyed from Shittim to Gilgal,
so you might acknowledge that the Lord has treated you fairly.” 12
6:2 Hear the Lord’s accusation, you mountains,
you enduring foundations of the earth!
For the Lord has a case against his people;
he has a dispute with Israel! 13
1:6 “I will turn Samaria 14 into a heap of ruins in an open field –
vineyards will be planted there! 15
I will tumble 16 the rubble of her stone walls 17 down into the valley,
and tear down her fortifications to their foundations. 18
1:1 This is the prophetic message that the Lord gave to 19 Micah of Moresheth. He delivered this message 20 during the reigns of 21 Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. The prophecies pertain to 22 Samaria 23 and Jerusalem. 24
1:9 For Samaria’s 25 disease 26 is incurable.
It has infected 27 Judah;
it has spread to 28 the leadership 29 of my people
and has even contaminated Jerusalem! 30
1 tn Heb “the” (so NAB).
2 tn Heb “seed.”
3 tn Heb “your words.”
4 sn Psalm 31. The psalmist confidently asks the Lord to protect him. Enemies threaten him and even his friends have abandoned him, but he looks to the Lord for vindication. In vv. 19-24, which were apparently written after the Lord answered the prayer of vv. 1-18, the psalmist thanks the Lord for delivering him.
5 tn Heb “in your vindication rescue me.”
6 tn Heb “in your vindication rescue me and deliver me.” Ps 31:1 omits “and deliver me.”
7 tn Heb “turn toward me your ear.”
8 tn Ps 31:2 adds “quickly” before “deliver.”
9 sn Psalm 143. As in the previous psalm, the psalmist laments his persecuted state and asks the Lord to deliver him from his enemies.
10 tn Heb “before you.”
11 tn Heb “remember what Balak…planned.”
12 tn Heb “From Shittim to Gilgal, in order to know the just acts of the
13 tn This verse briefly interrupts the
14 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
15 tn Heb “into a planting place for vineyards.”
16 tn Heb “pour” (so NASB, NIV); KJV, NRSV “pour down”; NAB “throw down”; NLT “roll.”
17 tn Heb “her stones.” The term stones is a metonymy for the city walls whose foundations were constructed of stone masonry.
18 tn Heb “I will uncover her foundations.” The term “foundations” refers to the lower courses of the stones of the city’s outer fortification walls.
19 tn Heb “The word of the
20 tn The words “he delivered this message” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarification.
21 tn Heb “in the days of” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).
22 tn Heb “which he saw concerning.”
23 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
24 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
25 tn Heb “her”; the referent (Samaria) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
26 tc The MT reads the plural “wounds”; the singular is read by the LXX, Syriac, and Vg.
27 tn Heb “come to.”
28 tn Or “reached.”
29 tn Heb “the gate.” Kings and civic leaders typically conducted important business at the city gate (see 1 Kgs 22:10 for an example), and the term is understood here to refer by metonymy to the leadership who would be present at the gate.
30 tn Heb “to Jerusalem.” The expression “it has contaminated” do not appear in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied to fill out the parallelism with the preceding line.