Psalms 119:42

119:42 Then I will have a reply for the one who insults me, ¹ 

for I trust in your word.

Psalms 119:147

119:147 I am up before dawn crying for help.

I find hope in your word.

Psalms 108:7

108:7 God has spoken in his sanctuary: ² 

“I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem,

the valley of Succoth I will measure off. ³ 

Genesis 32:11-12

32:11 Rescue me, ⁴  I pray, from the hand ⁵  of my brother Esau, ⁶  for I am afraid he will come ⁷  and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children. ⁸  32:12 But you ⁹  said, ‘I will certainly make you prosper ¹⁰  and will make ¹¹  your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’” ¹² 

Luke 21:33

21:33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. ¹³ 

¹ tn Heb “and I will answer [the] one who insults me a word.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the jussive (see v. 41).

² tn Heb “in his holy place.”

³ sn Shechem stands for the territory west of the Jordan River; the valley of Succoth represents the region east of the Jordan.

⁴ tn The imperative has the force of a prayer here, not a command.

⁵ tn The “hand” here is a metonymy for “power.”

⁶ tn Heb “from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau.”

⁷ tn Heb “for I am afraid of him, lest he come.”

⁸ sn Heb “me, [the] mother upon [the] sons.” The first person pronoun “me” probably means here “me and mine,” as the following clause suggests.

⁹ tn Heb “But you, you said.” One of the occurrences of the pronoun “you” has been left untranslated for stylistic reasons.

¹⁰ tn Or “will certainly deal well with you.” The infinitive absolute appears before the imperfect, underscoring God’s promise to bless. The statement is more emphatic than in v. 9.

¹¹ tn The form is the perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive, carrying the nuance of the preceding verb forward.

¹² tn Heb “which cannot be counted because of abundance.” The imperfect verbal form indicates potential here.

¹³ sn The words that Jesus predicts here will never pass away. They are more stable and lasting than creation itself. For this kind of image, see Isa 40:8; 55:10-11.