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
70:4 May all those who seek you be happy and rejoice in you!
May those who love to experience 4 your deliverance say continually, 5
“May God 6 be praised!” 7
79:10 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servants
be avenged among the nations! 8
96:10 Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!
The world is established, it cannot be moved.
He judges the nations fairly.”
129:8 Those who pass by will not say, 9
“May you experience the Lord’s blessing!
We pronounce a blessing on you in the name of the Lord.”
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 “those who love,” which stands metonymically for its cause, the experience of being delivered by God.
5 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 on the godly.
6 tn Ps 40:16 uses the divine name “
7 tn The prefixed verbal form is taken as a jussive, “may the
7 tn Heb “may it be known among the nations, to our eyes, the vengeance of the shed blood of your servants.”
10 tn The perfect verbal form is used for rhetorical effect; it describes an anticipated development as if it were already reality.