40:16 May all those who seek you be happy and rejoice in you!
May those who love to experience 1 your deliverance say continually, 2
“May the Lord be praised!” 3
51:14 Rescue me from the guilt of murder, 4 O God, the God who delivers me!
Then my tongue will shout for joy because of your deliverance. 5
71:15 I will tell about your justice,
and all day long proclaim your salvation, 6
though I cannot fathom its full extent. 7
144:10 the one who delivers 8 kings,
and rescued David his servant from a deadly 9 sword.
1 tn Heb “those who love,” which stands metonymically for its cause, the experience of being delivered by the
2 tn The three prefixed verbal forms prior to the quotation are understood as jussives. The psalmist balances out his imprecation against his enemies with a prayer of blessing upon the godly.
3 tn The prefixed verbal form is taken as a jussive, “may the
4 tn Heb “from bloodshed.” “Bloodshed” here stands by metonymy for the guilt which it produces.
5 tn Heb “my tongue will shout for joy your deliverance.” Another option is to take the prefixed verbal form as a jussive, “may my tongue shout for joy.” However, the pattern in vv. 12-15 appears to be prayer/request (see vv. 12, 14a, 15a) followed by promise/vow (see vv. 13, 14b, 15b).
7 tn Heb “my mouth declares your vindication, all the day your deliverance.”
8 tn Heb “though I do not know [the] numbers,” that is, the tally of God’s just and saving acts. HALOT 768 s.v. סְפֹרוֹת understands the plural noun to mean “the art of writing.”
10 tn Heb “grants deliverance to.”
11 tn Heb “harmful.”