Psalms 107:24

107:24 They witnessed the acts of the Lord,

his amazing feats on the deep water.

Psalms 48:5

48:5 As soon as they see, ¹  they are shocked; ² 

they are terrified, they quickly retreat. ³ 

Psalms 68:24

68:24 They ⁴  see your processions, O God –

the processions of my God, my king, who marches along in holy splendor. ⁵ 

Psalms 69:32

69:32 The oppressed look on – let them rejoice!

You who seek God, ⁶  may you be encouraged! ⁷ 

Psalms 95:9

95:9 where your ancestors challenged my authority, ⁸ 

and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.

Psalms 98:3

98:3 He remains loyal and faithful to the family of Israel. ⁹ 

All the ends of the earth see our God deliver us. ¹⁰ 

Psalms 139:16

139:16 Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. ¹¹ 

All the days ordained for me

were recorded in your scroll

before one of them came into existence. ¹² 

[48:5]  ¹ tn The object of “see” is omitted, but v. 3b suggests that the Lord’s self-revelation as the city’s defender is what they see.

[48:5]  ² tn Heb “they look, so they are shocked.” Here כֵּן (ken, “so”) has the force of “in the same measure.”

[48:5]  ³ tn The translation attempts to reflect the staccato style of the Hebrew text, where the main clauses of vv. 4-6 are simply juxtaposed without connectives.

[68:24]  ¹ tn The subject is probably indefinite, referring to bystanders in general who witness the procession.

[68:24]  ² tn The Hebrew text has simply “in holiness.” The words “who marches along” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[69:32]  ¹ sn You who seek God refers to those who seek to have a relationship with God by obeying and worshiping him (see Ps 53:2).

[69:32]  ² tn Heb “may your heart[s] live.” See Ps 22:26.

[95:9]  ¹ tn Heb “where your fathers tested me.”

[98:3]  ¹ tn Heb “he remembers his loyal love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel.”

[98:3]  ² tn Heb “the deliverance of our God,” with “God” being a subjective genitive (= God delivers).

[139:16]  ¹ tn Heb “Your eyes saw my shapeless form.” The Hebrew noun גֹּלֶם (golem) occurs only here in the OT. In later Hebrew the word refers to “a lump, a shapeless or lifeless substance,” and to “unfinished matter, a vessel wanting finishing” (Jastrow 222 s.v. גּוֹלֶם). The translation employs the dynamic rendering “when I was inside the womb” to clarify that the speaker was still in his mother’s womb at the time he was “seen” by God.

[139:16]  ² tn Heb “and on your scroll all of them were written, [the] days [which] were formed, and [there was] not one among them.” This “scroll” may be the “scroll of life” mentioned in Ps 69:28 (see the note on the word “living” there).