9:13 when they prayed: 1
“Have mercy on me, 2 Lord!
See how I am oppressed by those who hate me, 3
O one who can snatch me away 4 from the gates of death!
9:14 Then I will 5 tell about all your praiseworthy acts; 6
in the gates of Daughter Zion 7 I will rejoice because of your deliverance.” 8
22:22 I will declare your name to my countrymen! 9
In the middle of the assembly I will praise you!
51:14 Rescue me from the guilt of murder, 10 O God, the God who delivers me!
Then my tongue will shout for joy because of your deliverance. 11
51:15 O Lord, give me the words! 12
Then my mouth will praise you. 13
79:13 Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture,
will continually thank you. 14
We will tell coming generations of your praiseworthy acts. 15
51:11 Those whom the Lord has ransomed will return;
they will enter Zion with a happy shout.
Unending joy will crown them, 16
happiness and joy will overwhelm 17 them;
grief and suffering will disappear. 18
2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, 2:5 even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are saved! 19 – 2:6 and he raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 2:7 to demonstrate in the coming ages 20 the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward 21 us in Christ Jesus.
3:1 For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus 22 for the sake of you Gentiles –
1 tn The words “when they prayed,” though not represented in the Hebrew text, are supplied in the translation for clarification. The petition in vv. 13-14 is best understood as the cry for help which the oppressed offered to God when the nations threatened. The
2 tn Or “show me favor.”
3 tn Heb “see my misery from the ones who hate me.”
4 tn Heb “one who lifts me up.”
5 tn Or “so that I might.”
6 tn Heb “all your praise.” “Praise” stands by metonymy for the mighty acts that prompt it.
7 sn Daughter Zion is an idiomatic title for Jerusalem. It appears frequently in the prophets, but only here in the psalms.
8 tn Heb “in your deliverance.”
9 tn Or “brothers,” but here the term does not carry a literal familial sense. It refers to the psalmist’s fellow members of the Israelite covenant community (see v. 23).
10 tn Heb “from bloodshed.” “Bloodshed” here stands by metonymy for the guilt which it produces.
11 tn Heb “my tongue will shout for joy your deliverance.” Another option is to take the prefixed verbal form as a jussive, “may my tongue shout for joy.” However, the pattern in vv. 12-15 appears to be prayer/request (see vv. 12, 14a, 15a) followed by promise/vow (see vv. 13, 14b, 15b).
12 tn Heb “open my lips.” The imperfect verbal form is used here to express the psalmist’s wish or request.
13 tn Heb “and my mouth will declare your praise.”
14 tn Or (hyperbolically) “will thank you forever.”
15 tn Heb “to a generation and a generation we will report your praise.” Here “praise” stands by metonymy for the mighty acts that prompt worship. Cf. Ps 9:14.
16 tn Heb “[will be] on their head[s].” “Joy” may be likened here to a crown (cf. 2 Sam 1:10). The statement may also be an ironic twist on the idiom “earth/dust on the head” (cf. 2 Sam 1:2; 13:19; 15:32; Job 2:12), referring to a mourning practice.
17 tn Heb “overtake” (so NIV); NASB “they will obtain.”
18 tn Heb “grief and groaning will flee.”
19 tn Or “by grace you have been saved.” The perfect tense in Greek connotes both completed action (“you have been saved”) and continuing results (“you are saved”).
20 tn Or possibly “to the Aeons who are about to come.”
21 tn Or “upon.”
22 tc Several early and important witnesses, chiefly of the Western text (א* D* F G [365]), lack ᾿Ιησοῦ (Ihsou, “Jesus”) here, while most Alexandrian and Byzantine
23 tn Or “not as a result of.”
24 tn Grk “lest anyone should boast.”