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
66:13 I will enter 9 your temple with burnt sacrifices;
I will fulfill the vows I made to you,
66:14 which my lips uttered
and my mouth spoke when I was in trouble.
66:15 I will offer up to you fattened animals as burnt sacrifices,
along with the smell of sacrificial rams.
I will offer cattle and goats. (Selah)
95:2 Let’s enter his presence 10 with thanksgiving!
Let’s shout out to him in celebration! 11
100:4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give him thanks!
Praise his name!
116:18 I will fulfill my vows to the Lord
before all his people,
116:19 in the courts of the Lord’s temple,
in your midst, O Jerusalem.
Praise the Lord!
38:20 The Lord is about to deliver me, 12
and we will celebrate with music 13
for the rest of our lives in the Lord’s temple.” 14
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 sn Here the psalmist switches to the singular; he speaks as the representative of the nation.
10 tn Heb “meet his face.”
11 tn Heb “with songs of joy.”
12 tn The infinitive construct is used here to indicate that an action is imminent. See GKC 348-49 §114.i, and IBHS 610 §36.2.3g.
13 tn Heb “and music [or perhaps, “stringed instruments”] we will play.”
14 tn Heb “all the days of our lives in the house of the Lord.”