52:8 But I 1 am like a flourishing 2 olive tree in the house of God;
I continually 3 trust in God’s loyal love.
73:28 But as for me, God’s presence is all I need. 4
I have made the sovereign Lord my shelter,
as 5 I declare all the things you have done.
1 tn The disjunctive construction (vav [ו] + subject) highlights the contrast between the evildoer’s destiny (vv. 5-7) and that of the godly psalmist’s security.
2 tn Or “luxuriant, green, leafy.”
3 tn Or, hyperbolically, “forever and ever.”
4 tn Heb “but as for me, the nearness of God for me [is] good.”
5 tn The infinitive construct with -לְ (lÿ) is understood here as indicating an attendant circumstance. Another option is to take it as indicating purpose (“so that I might declare”) or result (“with the result that I declare”).