Psalms 119:150

119:150 Those who are eager to do ¹  wrong draw near;

they are far from your law.

Psalms 119:157

119:157 The enemies who chase me are numerous. ² 

Yet I do not turn aside from your rules.

Psalms 35:3

35:3 Use your spear and lance ³  against ⁴  those who chase me!

Assure me with these words: ⁵  “I am your deliverer!”

Psalms 38:20

38:20 They repay me evil for the good I have done;

though I have tried to do good to them, they hurl accusations at me. ⁶ 

Psalms 7:1

Psalm 7 ⁷ 

A musical composition ⁸  by David, which he sang to the Lord concerning ⁹  a Benjaminite named Cush. ¹⁰ 

7:1 O Lord my God, in you I have taken shelter. ¹¹ 

Deliver me from all who chase me! Rescue me!

[119:150]  ¹ tn Heb “those who pursue.”

[119:157]  ² tn Heb “many [are] those who chase me and my enemies.”

[35:3]  ³ tn Or “javelin.” On the meaning of this word, which occurs only here in the Hebrew Bible, see M. Dahood, Psalms (AB), 1:210-11.

[35:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “draw out spear and lance to meet.”

[35:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “say to me,” or “say to my soul.”

[38:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “the ones who repay evil instead of good accuse me, instead of my pursuing good.”

[7:1]  ⁵ sn Psalm 7. The psalmist asks the Lord to intervene and deliver him from his enemies. He protests his innocence and declares his confidence in God’s justice.

[7:1]  ⁶ tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew term שִׁגָּיוֹן (shiggayon; translated here “musical composition”) is uncertain. Some derive the noun from the verbal root שָׁגָה (shagah, “swerve, reel”) and understand it as referring to a “wild, passionate song, with rapid changes of rhythm” (see BDB 993 s.v. שִׁגָּיוֹן). But this proposal is purely speculative. The only other appearance of the noun is in Hab 3:1, where it occurs in the plural.

[7:1]  ⁷ tn Or “on account of.”

[7:1]  ⁸ sn Apparently this individual named Cush was one of David’s enemies.

[7:1]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew perfect verbal form probably refers here to a completed action with continuing results.