Psalms 10:6

10:6 He says to himself, ¹ 

“I will never ²  be upended,

because I experience no calamity.” ³ 

Psalms 34:9

34:9 Remain loyal to ⁴  the Lord, you chosen people of his, ⁵ 

for his loyal followers ⁶  lack nothing!

Psalms 107:27

107:27 They swayed ⁷  and staggered like a drunk,

and all their skill proved ineffective. ⁸ 

[10:6]  ¹ tn Heb “he says in his heart/mind.”

[10:6]  ² tn Heb “for a generation and a generation.” The traditional accentuation of the MT understands these words with the following line.

[10:6]  ³ tn Heb “who, not in calamity.” If אֲשֶׁר (’asher) is taken as a relative pronoun here, then one could translate, “[I] who [am] not in calamity.” Some emend אֲשֶׁר to אֹשֶׁר (’osher, “happiness”; see HALOT 99 s.v. אֹשֶׁר); one might then translate, “[I live in] happiness, not in calamity.” The present translation assumes that אֲשֶׁר functions here as a causal conjunction, “because, for.” For this use of אֲשֶׁר, see BDB 83 s.v. אֲשֶׁר 8.c (where the present text is not cited).

[34:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “fear.”

[34:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “O holy ones of his.”

[34:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “those who fear him.”

[107:27]  ⁷ tn Only here does the Hebrew verb חָגַג (khagag; normally meaning “to celebrate”) carry the nuance “to sway.”

[107:27]  ⁸ tn The Hitpael of בָלַע (vala’) occurs only here in the OT. Traditionally the form is derived from the verbal root בלע (“to swallow”), but HALOT 135 s.v. III בלע understands a homonym here with the meaning “to be confused.”