66:18 If I had harbored sin in my heart, 1
the Lord would not have listened.
For the music director; a song, a psalm.
66:1 Shout out praise to God, all the earth!
A psalm of David.
24:1 The Lord owns the earth and all it contains,
the world and all who live in it.
11:14 if 4 iniquity is in your hand – put it far away, 5
and do not let evil reside in your tents.
1 tn Heb “sin if I had seen in my heart.”
2 sn Psalm 66. The psalmist praises God because he has delivered his people from a crisis.
3 sn Psalm 24. The psalmist affirms the universal kingship of the sovereign creator, reminds his people that only the morally pure are qualified to worship him, and celebrates his splendor as a mighty warrior king.
4 tn Verse 14 should be taken as a parenthesis and not a continuation of the protasis, because it does not fit with v. 13 in that way (D. J. A. Clines, Job [WBC], 256).
5 tn Many commentators follow the Vulgate and read the line “if you put away the sin that is in your hand.” They do this because the imperative comes between the protasis (v. 13) and the apodosis (v. 15) and does not appear to be clearly part of the protasis. The idea is close to the MT, but the MT is much more forceful – if you find sin in your hand, get rid of it.