Psalms 83:16

83:16 Cover ¹  their faces with shame,

so they might seek ²  you, ³  O Lord.

Psalms 83:2

83:2 For look, your enemies are making a commotion;

those who hate you are hostile. ⁴ 

Psalms 3:1

Psalm 3 ⁵ 

A psalm of David, written when he fled from his son Absalom. ⁶ 

3:1 Lord, how ⁷  numerous are my enemies!

Many attack me. ⁸ 

Titus 2:8

2:8 and a sound message that cannot be criticized, so that any opponent will be at a loss, ⁹  because he has nothing evil to say about us.

¹ tn Heb “fill.”

² tn After the preceding imperative, the prefixed verbal form with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose or result (“then they will seek”).

³ tn Heb “your name,” which stands here for God’s person.

⁴ tn Heb “lift up [their] head[s].” The phrase “lift up [the] head” here means “to threaten; to be hostile,” as in Judg 8:28.

⁵ sn Psalm 3. The psalmist acknowledges that he is confronted by many enemies (vv. 1-2). But, alluding to a divine oracle he has received (vv. 4-5), he affirms his confidence in God’s ability to protect him (vv. 3, 6) and requests that God make his promise a reality (vv. 7-8).

⁶ sn According to Jewish tradition, David offered this prayer when he was forced to flee from Jerusalem during his son Absalom’s attempted coup (see 2 Sam 15:13-17).

⁷ tn The Hebrew term מָה (mah, “how”) is used here as an adverbial exclamation (see BDB 553 s.v.).

⁸ tn Heb “many rise up against me.”

⁹ tn Or “put to shame.”