37:26 All day long he shows compassion and lends to others, 1
and his children 2 are blessed.
44:24 Why do you look the other way, 3
and ignore 4 the way we are oppressed and mistreated? 5
82:7 Yet you will die like mortals; 6
you will fall like all the other rulers.” 7
1 tn The active participles describe characteristic behavior.
2 tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”
3 tn Heb “Why do you hide your face?” The idiom “hide the face” can mean “ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or carry the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 30:7; 88:14).
4 tn Or “forget.”
5 tn Heb “our oppression and our affliction.”
5 tn Heb “men.” The point in the context is mortality, however, not maleness.
6 tn Heb “like one of the rulers.” The comparison does not necessarily imply that they are not rulers. The expression “like one of” can sometimes mean “as one of” (Gen 49:16; Obad 11) or “as any other of” (Judg 16:7, 11).