Psalms 102:13

102:13 You will rise up and have compassion on Zion. ¹ 

For it is time to have mercy on her,

for the appointed time has come.

Psalms 27:3

27:3 Even when an army is deployed against me,

I do not fear. ² 

Even when war is imminent, ³ 

I remain confident. ⁴ 

[102:13]  ¹ tn The imperfect verbal forms are understood as expressing the psalmist’s confidence in God’s intervention. Another option is to take them as expressing the psalmist’s request or wish, “You, rise up and have compassion!”

[27:3]  ² tn Heb “my heart does not fear.”

[27:3]  ³ tn Heb “if war rises up against me.”

[27:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “in this [i.e., “during this situation”] I am trusting.”