Psalms 4:5

4:5 Offer the prescribed sacrifices¹

and trust in the Lord!²

Psalms 106:12

106:12 They believed his promises;³

they sang praises to him.

119:8 I will keep your statutes.

Do not completely abandon me!⁴

119:44 Then I will keep⁵ your law continually

now and for all time.⁶

147:3 He heals⁷ the brokenhearted,

and bandages their wounds.

¹tn Or “proper, right.” The phrase also occurs in Deut 33:19 and Ps 51:19.

²sn Trust in the Lord. The psalmist urges his enemies to make peace with God and become his followers.

³tn Heb “his words.”

⁵tn Heb “do not abandon me to excess.” For other uses of the phrase עַד מְאֹד (’ad mÿ’od, “to excess”), see Ps 38:6, 8.

⁷tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the negated jussive (see v. 43).

⁸tn Or “forever and ever.”

⁹tn Heb “the one who heals.”