86:4 Make your servant 1 glad,
for to you, O Lord, I pray! 2
94:21 They conspire against 3 the blameless, 4
and condemn to death the innocent. 5
107:9 For he has satisfied those who thirst, 6
and those who hunger he has filled with food. 7
1 tn Heb “the soul of your servant.”
2 tn Heb “I lift up my soul.”
3 tn Or “attack.”
4 tn Heb “the life of the blameless.”
5 tn Heb “and the blood of the innocent they declare guilty.”
5 tn Heb “[the] longing throat.” The noun נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh), which frequently refers to one’s very being or soul, here probably refers to one’s parched “throat” (note the parallelism with נֶפֱשׁ רְעֵבָה, nefesh rÿ’evah, “hungry throat”).
6 tn Heb “and [the] hungry throat he has filled [with] good.”