69:27 Hold them accountable for all their sins! 1
Do not vindicate them! 2
69:28 May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! 3
Do not let their names be listed with the godly! 4
69:29 I am oppressed and suffering!
O God, deliver and protect me! 5
69:30 I will sing praises to God’s name! 6
I will magnify him as I give him thanks! 7
69:31 That will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull
with horns and hooves.
69:32 The oppressed look on – let them rejoice!
You who seek God, 8 may you be encouraged! 9
69:33 For the Lord listens to the needy;
he does not despise his captive people. 10
69:34 Let the heavens and the earth praise him,
along with the seas and everything that swims in them!
69:35 For God will deliver Zion
and rebuild the cities of Judah,
and his people 11 will again live in them and possess Zion. 12
69:36 The descendants of his servants will inherit it,
and those who are loyal to him 13 will live in it. 14
1 tn Heb “place sin upon their sin.”
2 tn Heb “let them not come into your vindication.”
3 tn Heb “let them be wiped out of the scroll of the living.”
4 tn Heb “and with the godly let them not be written.”
5 tn Heb “your deliverance, O God, may it protect me.”
6 tn Heb “I will praise the name of God with a song.”
7 tn Heb “I will magnify him with thanks.”
8 sn You who seek God refers to those who seek to have a relationship with God by obeying and worshiping him (see Ps 53:2).
9 tn Heb “may your heart[s] live.” See Ps 22:26.
10 tn Heb “his prisoners he does not despise.”
11 tn Heb “they”; the referent (God’s people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12 tn Heb “it.” The third feminine singular pronominal suffix probably refers to “Zion” (see Pss 48:12; 102:14); thus the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
13 tn Heb “the lovers of his name.” The phrase refers to those who are loyal to God (cf. v. 35). See Pss 5:11; 119:132; Isa 56:6.
14 sn Verses 35-36 appear to be an addition to the psalm from the time of the exile. The earlier lament reflects an individual’s situation, while these verses seem to reflect a communal application of it.