119:150 Those who are eager to do 1 wrong draw near;
they are far from your law.
119:157 The enemies who chase me are numerous. 2
Yet I do not turn aside from your rules.
35:3 Use your spear and lance 3 against 4 those who chase me!
Assure me with these words: 5 “I am your deliverer!”
38:20 They repay me evil for the good I have done;
though I have tried to do good to them, they hurl accusations at me. 6
A musical composition 8 by David, which he sang to the Lord concerning 9 a Benjaminite named Cush. 10
7:1 O Lord my God, in you I have taken shelter. 11
Deliver me from all who chase me! Rescue me!
1 tn Heb “those who pursue.”
2 tn Heb “many [are] those who chase me and my enemies.”
3 tn Or “javelin.” On the meaning of this word, which occurs only here in the Hebrew Bible, see M. Dahood, Psalms (AB), 1:210-11.
4 tn Heb “draw out spear and lance to meet.”
5 tn Heb “say to me,” or “say to my soul.”
4 tn Heb “the ones who repay evil instead of good accuse me, instead of my pursuing good.”
5 sn Psalm 7. The psalmist asks the Lord to intervene and deliver him from his enemies. He protests his innocence and declares his confidence in God’s justice.
6 tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew term שִׁגָּיוֹן (shiggayon; translated here “musical composition”) is uncertain. Some derive the noun from the verbal root שָׁגָה (shagah, “swerve, reel”) and understand it as referring to a “wild, passionate song, with rapid changes of rhythm” (see BDB 993 s.v. שִׁגָּיוֹן). But this proposal is purely speculative. The only other appearance of the noun is in Hab 3:1, where it occurs in the plural.
7 tn Or “on account of.”
8 sn Apparently this individual named Cush was one of David’s enemies.
9 tn The Hebrew perfect verbal form probably refers here to a completed action with continuing results.