For the music director; a psalm of David.
21:1 O Lord, the king rejoices in the strength you give; 2
he takes great delight in the deliverance you provide. 3
48:11 Mount Zion rejoices;
the towns 4 of Judah are happy, 5
because of your acts of judgment. 6
58:10 The godly 7 will rejoice when they see vengeance carried out;
they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.
64:10 The godly will rejoice in the Lord
and take shelter in him.
All the morally upright 8 will boast. 9
104:15 as well as wine that makes people feel so good, 10
and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, 11
as well as food that sustains people’s lives. 12
1 sn Psalm 21. The psalmist praises the Lord for the way he protects and blesses the Davidic king.
2 tn Heb “in your strength.” The translation interprets the pronominal suffix as subjective, rather than merely descriptive (or attributive).
3 tn Heb “and in your deliverance, how greatly he rejoices.”
4 tn Heb “daughters.” The reference is to the cities of Judah surrounding Zion (see Ps 97:8 and H. Haag, TDOT 2:336).
5 tn The prefixed verbal forms are understood as generalizing imperfects. (For other examples of an imperfect followed by causal לְמַעַן [lÿma’an], see Ps 23:3; Isa 49:7; 55:5.) Another option is to interpret the forms as jussives, “Let Mount Zion rejoice! Let the towns of Judah be happy!” (cf. NASB, NRSV; note the imperatives in vv. 12-13.)
6 sn These acts of judgment are described in vv. 4-7.
7 tn The singular is representative here, as is the singular from “wicked” in the next line.
10 tn Heb “upright in heart.”
11 tn That is, about the
13 tn Heb “and wine [that] makes the heart of man happy.”
14 tn Heb “to make [the] face shine from oil.” The Hebrew verb צָהַל (tsahal, “to shine”) occurs only here in the OT. It appears to be an alternate form of צָהַר (tsahar), a derivative from צָהָרִים (tsaharim, “noon”).
15 tn Heb “and food [that] sustains the heart of man.”