Psalms 119:40

119:40 Look, I long for your precepts.

Revive me with your deliverance! ¹ 

Psalms 69:27

69:27 Hold them accountable for all their sins! ² 

Do not vindicate them! ³ 

Psalms 71:2

71:2 Vindicate me by rescuing me! ⁴ 

Listen to me! ⁵  Deliver me! ⁶ 

Psalms 143:11

143:11 O Lord, for the sake of your reputation, ⁷  revive me! ⁸ 

Because of your justice, rescue me from trouble! ⁹ 

Psalms 5:8

5:8 Lord, lead me in your righteousness ¹⁰ 

because of those who wait to ambush me, ¹¹ 

remove the obstacles in the way in which you are guiding me! ¹² 

Psalms 31:1

Psalm 31 ¹³ 

For the music director; a psalm of David.

31:1 In you, O Lord, I have taken shelter!

Never let me be humiliated!

Vindicate me by rescuing me! ¹⁴ 

Psalms 143:1

Psalm 143 ¹⁵ 

A psalm of David.

143:1 O Lord, hear my prayer!

Pay attention to my plea for help!

Because of your faithfulness and justice, answer me!

[119:40]  ¹ tn Or “righteousness.”

[69:27]  ² tn Heb “place sin upon their sin.”

[69:27]  ³ tn Heb “let them not come into your vindication.”

[71:2]  ³ tn Heb “in your vindication rescue me and deliver me.” Ps 31:1 omits “and deliver me.”

[71:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “turn toward me your ear.”

[71:2]  ⁵ tn Ps 31:2 adds “quickly” before “deliver.”

[143:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.

[143:11]  ⁵ tn The imperfect verbal forms in vv. 11-12a are understood as expressing the psalmist’s desire. Note the petitionary tone of vv. 7-10a.

[143:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “by your justice bring out my life from trouble.”

[5:8]  ⁵ tn God’s providential leading is in view. His צְדָקָה (tsÿdaqah, “righteousness”) includes here the deliverance that originates in his righteousness; he protects and vindicates the one whose cause is just. For other examples of this use of the word, see BDB 842 s.v.

[5:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “because of those who watch me [with evil intent].” See also Pss 27:11; 56:2.

[5:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “make level before me your way.” The imperative “make level” is Hiphil in the Kethib (consonantal text); Piel in the Qere (marginal reading). God’s “way” is here the way in which he leads the psalmist providentially (see the preceding line, where the psalmist asks the Lord to lead him).

[31:1]  ⁶ sn Psalm 31. The psalmist confidently asks the Lord to protect him. Enemies threaten him and even his friends have abandoned him, but he looks to the Lord for vindication. In vv. 19-24, which were apparently written after the Lord answered the prayer of vv. 1-18, the psalmist thanks the Lord for delivering him.

[31:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “in your vindication rescue me.”

[143:1]  ⁷ sn Psalm 143. As in the previous psalm, the psalmist laments his persecuted state and asks the Lord to deliver him from his enemies.