136:23 to the one who remembered us when we were down, 1
for his loyal love endures,
8:1 But God remembered 2 Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over 3 the earth and the waters receded.
19:29 So when God destroyed 4 the cities of the region, 5 God honored 6 Abraham’s request. He removed Lot 7 from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed 8 the cities Lot had lived in.
1 tn Heb “who, in our low condition, remembered us.”
2 tn The Hebrew word translated “remembered” often carries the sense of acting in accordance with what is remembered, i.e., fulfilling covenant promises (see B. S. Childs, Memory and Tradition in Israel [SBT], especially p. 34).
3 tn Heb “to pass over.”
4 tn The construction is a temporal clause comprised of the temporal indicator, an infinitive construct with a preposition, and the subjective genitive.
5 tn Or “of the plain”; Heb “of the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.
6 tn Heb “remembered,” but this means more than mental recollection here. Abraham’s request (Gen 18:23-32) was that the
7 sn God’s removal of Lot before the judgment is paradigmatic. He typically delivers the godly before destroying their world.
8 tn Heb “the overthrow when [he] overthrew.”