Psalms 37:23

37:23 The Lord grants success to the one

whose behavior he finds commendable. ¹ 

Psalms 65:6

65:6 You created the mountains by your power, ² 

and demonstrated your strength. ³ 

Psalms 93:2

93:2 Your throne has been secure from ancient times;

you have always been king. ⁴ 

Psalms 107:36

107:36 He allowed the hungry to settle there,

and they established a city in which to live.

Psalms 119:5

119:5 If only I were predisposed ⁵ 

to keep your statutes!

Psalms 119:73

י (Yod)

119:73 Your hands made me and formed me. ⁶ 

Give me understanding so that I might learn ⁷  your commands.

Psalms 119:90

119:90 You demonstrate your faithfulness to all generations. ⁸ 

You established the earth and it stood firm.

¹ tn Heb “from the Lord the steps of a man are established, and in his way he delights.” The second line qualifies the first. The man whose behavior is commendable in God’s sight is the one whose ways are established by God. Another option is that the second line refers to the godly man delighting in God’s “way,” namely the lifestyle which he prescribes for men. In this case one might translate, “The Lord grants success to the one who desires to obey his commands.”

² tn Heb “[the] one who establishes [the] mountains by his power.”

³ tn Heb “one [who] is girded with strength”; or “one [who] girds himself with strength.”

³ tn Heb “from antiquity [are] you.” As the context suggests, this refers specifically to God’s royal position, not his personal existence.

⁴ tn Heb “if only my ways were established.”

⁵ tn Heb “made me and established me.” The two verbs also appear together in Deut 32:6, where God, compared to a father, is said to have “made and established” Israel.

⁶ tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

⁶ tn Heb “to a generation and a generation [is] your faithfulness.”