Psalms 89:28-29

89:28 I will always extend my loyal love to him,

and my covenant with him is secure. ¹ 

89:29 I will give him an eternal dynasty, ² 

and make his throne as enduring as the skies above. ³ 

Psalms 89:2

89:2 For I say, “Loyal love is permanently established; ⁴ 

in the skies you set up your faithfulness.” ⁵ 

Psalms 10:1

Psalm 10 ⁶ 

10:1 Why, Lord, do you stand far off?

Why do you pay no attention during times of trouble? ⁷ 

Isaiah 63:18

63:18 For a short time your special ⁸  nation possessed a land, ⁹ 

but then our adversaries knocked down ¹⁰  your holy sanctuary.

¹ tn Heb “forever I will keep for him my loyal love and will make my covenant secure for him.”

² tn Heb “and I will set in place forever his offspring.”

³ tn Heb “and his throne like the days of the heavens.”

⁴ tn Heb “built.”

⁵ sn You set up your faithfulness. This may allude to the Lord’s heavenly throne, which symbolizes his just rule and from which the Lord decrees his unconditional promises (see vv. 8, 14).

⁶ sn Psalm 10. Many Hebrew mss and the ancient Greek version (LXX) combine Psalms 9 and 10 into a single psalm. Taken in isolation, Psalm 10 is a petition for help in which the psalmist urges the Lord to deliver him from his dangerous enemies, whom he describes in vivid and terrifying detail. The psalmist concludes with confidence; he is certain that God’s justice will prevail.

⁷ tn Heb “you hide for times in trouble.” The interrogative “why” is understood by ellipsis; note the preceding line. The Hiphil verbal form “hide” has no expressed object. Some supply “your eyes” by ellipsis (see BDB 761 s.v. I עָלַם Hiph and HALOT 835 s.v. I עלם hif) or emend the form to a Niphal (“you hide yourself,” see BHS, note c; cf. NEB, NIV, NRSV).

⁸ tn Or “holy” (ASV, NASB, NRSV, TEV, NLT).

⁹ tn Heb “for a short time they had a possession, the people of your holiness.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “your adversaries trampled on.”