Psalms 116:6-8

116:6 The Lord protects ¹  the untrained; ² 

I was in serious trouble ³  and he delivered me.

116:7 Rest once more, my soul, ⁴ 

for the Lord has vindicated you. ⁵ 

116:8 Yes, ⁶  Lord, ⁷  you rescued my life from death,

and kept my feet from stumbling.

[116:6]  ¹ tn Heb “guards.” The active participle indicates this is a characteristic of the Lord.

[116:6]  ² tn Or “the [morally] naive,” that is, the one who is young and still in the process of learning right from wrong and distinguishing wisdom from folly. See Ps 19:7.

[116:6]  ³ tn Heb “I was low.”

[116:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “return, my soul, to your place of rest.”

[116:7]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew idiom גָּמַל עַל (gamal ’al) means “to repay,” here in a positive sense (cf. Ps 13:5).

[116:8]  ⁷ tn Or “for.”

[116:8]  ⁸ tn “Lord” is supplied here in the translation for clarification.