21:2 You grant 1 him his heart’s desire;
you do not refuse his request. 2 (Selah)
84:11 For the Lord God is our sovereign protector. 3
The Lord bestows favor 4 and honor;
he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity. 5
1 tn The translation assumes the perfect verbal forms in v. 2 are generalizing, stating factually what God typically does for the king. Another option is to take them as present perfects, “you have granted…you have not refused.” See v. 4, which mentions a specific request for a long reign.
2 tn Heb “and the request of his lips you do not refuse.”
3 tn Heb “[is] a sun and a shield.” The epithet “sun,” though rarely used of Israel’s God in the OT, was a well-attested royal title in the ancient Near East. For several examples from Ugaritic texts, the Amarna letters, and Assyrian royal inscriptions, see R. B. Chisholm, “An Exegetical and Theological Study of Psalm 18/2 Samuel 22” (Th.D. diss., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1983), 131, n. 2.
4 tn Or “grace.”
5 tn Heb “he does not withhold good to those walking in integrity.”