Psalms 119:41

ו (Vav)

119:41 May I experience your loyal love, ¹  O Lord,

and your deliverance, ²  as you promised. ³ 

Psalms 119:76-77

119:76 May your loyal love console me,

as you promised your servant. ⁴ 

119:77 May I experience your compassion, ⁵  so I might live!

For I find delight in your law.

Psalms 119:132

119:132 Turn toward me and extend mercy to me,

as you typically do to your loyal followers. ⁶ 

Psalms 51:1

Psalm 51 ⁷ 

For the music director; a psalm of David, written when Nathan the prophet confronted him after David’s affair with Bathsheba. ⁸ 

51:1 Have mercy on me, O God, because of ⁹  your loyal love!

Because of ¹⁰  your great compassion, wipe away my rebellious acts! ¹¹ 

Psalms 69:13

69:13 O Lord, may you hear my prayer and be favorably disposed to me! ¹² 

O God, because of your great loyal love,

answer me with your faithful deliverance! ¹³ 

Psalms 69:16

69:16 Answer me, O Lord, for your loyal love is good! ¹⁴ 

Because of your great compassion, turn toward me!

Psalms 79:8

79:8 Do not hold us accountable for the sins of earlier generations! ¹⁵ 

Quickly send your compassion our way, ¹⁶ 

for we are in serious trouble! ¹⁷ 

Psalms 103:10

103:10 He does not deal with us as our sins deserve; ¹⁸ 

he does not repay us as our misdeeds deserve. ¹⁹ 

Psalms 130:3-4

130:3 If you, O Lord, were to keep track of ²⁰  sins,

O Lord, who could stand before you? ²¹ 

130:4 But ²²  you are willing to forgive, ²³ 

so that you might ²⁴  be honored. ²⁵ 

Psalms 130:7

130:7 O Israel, hope in the Lord,

for the Lord exhibits loyal love, ²⁶ 

and is more than willing to deliver. ²⁷ 

Daniel 9:18

9:18 Listen attentively, ²⁸  my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins ²⁹  and the city called by your name. ³⁰  For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, ³¹  but because your compassion is abundant.

Luke 18:13

18:13 The tax collector, however, stood ³²  far off and would not even look up ³³  to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, be merciful ³⁴  to me, sinner that I am!’ ³⁵ 

Luke 18:2

18:2 He said, ³⁶  “In a certain city ³⁷  there was a judge ³⁸  who neither feared God nor respected people. ³⁹ 

Luke 1:16-18

1:16 He ⁴⁰  will turn ⁴¹  many of the people ⁴²  of Israel to the Lord their God. 1:17 And he will go as forerunner before the Lord ⁴³  in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, ⁴⁴  to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him.”

1:18 Zechariah ⁴⁵  said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? ⁴⁶  For I am an old man, and my wife is old as well.” ⁴⁷ 

[119:41]  ¹ tn Heb “and may your loyal love come to me.”

[119:41]  ² tn Or “salvation” (so many English versions).

[119:41]  ³ tn Heb “according to your word.”

[119:76]  ⁴ tn Heb “according to your word to your servant.”

[119:77]  ⁷ tn Heb “and may your compassion come to me.”

[119:132]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “according to custom toward the lovers of your name.” The “lovers of” God’s “name” are the Lord’s loyal followers. See Pss 5:11; 69:36; Isa 56:6.

[51:1]  ¹³ sn Psalm 51. The psalmist confesses his sinfulness to God and begs for forgiveness and a transformation of his inner character. According to the psalm superscription, David offered this prayer when Nathan confronted him with his sin following the king’s affair with Bathsheba (see 2 Sam 11-12). However, the final two verses of the psalm hardly fit this situation, for they assume the walls of Jerusalem have been destroyed and that the sacrificial system has been temporarily suspended. These verses are probably an addition to the psalm made during the period of exile following the fall of Jerusalem in 586 b.c. The exiles could relate to David’s experience, for they, like him, and had been forced to confront their sin. They appropriated David’s ancient prayer and applied it to their own circumstances.

[51:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “a psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him when he had gone to Bathsheba.”

[51:1]  ¹⁵ tn Or “according to.”

[51:1]  ¹⁶ tn Or “according to.”

[51:1]  ¹⁷ tn Traditionally “blot out my transgressions.” Because of the reference to washing and cleansing in the following verse, it is likely that the psalmist is comparing forgiveness to wiping an object clean (note the use of the verb מָחָה (makhah) in the sense of “wipe clean; dry” in 2 Kgs 21:13; Prov 30:20; Isa 25:8). Another option is that the psalmist is comparing forgiveness to erasing or blotting out names from a register (see Exod 32:32-33). In this case one might translate, “erase all record of my rebellious acts.”

[69:13]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “as for me, [may] my prayer be to you, O Lord, [in] a time of favor.”

[69:13]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “O God, in the abundance of your loyal love, answer me in the faithfulness of your deliverance.”

[69:16]  ¹⁹ tn Or “pleasant”; or “desirable.”

[79:8]  ²² tn Heb “do not remember against us sins, former.” Some understand “former” as an attributive adjective modifying sins, “former [i.e., chronologically prior] sins” (see BDB 911 s.v. רִאשׁוֹן). The present translation assumes that ראשׁנים (“former”) here refers to those who lived formerly, that is, the people’s ancestors (see Lam 5:7). The word is used in this way in Lev 26:45; Deut 19:14 and Eccl 1:11.

[79:8]  ²³ tn Heb “may your compassion quickly confront us.” The prefixed verbal form is understood as a jussive, indicating a tone of prayer.

[79:8]  ²⁴ tn Heb “for we are very low.”

[103:10]  ²⁵ tn Heb “not according to our sins does he do to us.”

[103:10]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and not according to our misdeeds does he repay us.”

[130:3]  ²⁸ tn Heb “observe.”

[130:3]  ²⁹ tn The words “before you” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The psalmist must be referring to standing before God’s judgment seat. The rhetorical question expects the answer, “No one.”

[130:4]  ³¹ tn Or “surely.”

[130:4]  ³² tn Heb “for with you [there is] forgiveness.”

[130:4]  ³³ tn Or “consequently you are.”

[130:4]  ³⁴ tn Heb “feared.”

[130:7]  ³⁴ tn Heb “for with the Lord [is] loyal love.”

[130:7]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and abundantly with him [is] redemption.”

[9:18]  ³⁷ tn Heb “turn your ear.”

[9:18]  ³⁸ tn Heb “desolations.” The term refers here to the ruined condition of Judah’s towns.

[9:18]  ³⁹ tn Heb “over which your name is called.” Cf. v. 19. This expression implies that God is the owner of his city, Jerusalem. Note the use of the idiom in 2 Sam 12:28; Isa 4:1; Amos 9:12.

[9:18]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “praying our supplications before you.”

[18:13]  ⁴⁰ tn Grk “standing”; the Greek participle has been translated as a finite verb.

[18:13]  ⁴¹ tn Grk “even lift up his eyes” (an idiom).

[18:13]  ⁴² tn The prayer is a humble call for forgiveness. The term for mercy (ἱλάσκομαι, Jilaskomai) is associated with the concept of a request for atonement (BDAG 473-74 s.v. 1; Ps 51:1, 3; 25:11; 34:6, 18).

[18:13]  ⁴³ tn Grk “the sinner.” The tax collector views himself not just as any sinner but as the worst of all sinners. See ExSyn 222-23.

[18:2]  ⁴³ tn Grk “lose heart, saying.” This is a continuation of the previous sentence in the Greek text, but a new sentence was started here in the translation by supplying the pronominal subject “He.”

[18:2]  ⁴⁴ tn Or “town.”

[18:2]  ⁴⁵ sn The judge here is apparently portrayed as a civil judge who often handled financial cases.

[18:2]  ⁴⁶ tn Grk “man,” but the singular ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is used as a generic in comparison to God.

[1:16]  ⁴⁶ tn Grk “And he.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[1:16]  ⁴⁷ sn The word translated will turn is a good summary term for repentance and denotes John’s call to a change of direction (Luke 3:1-14).

[1:16]  ⁴⁸ tn Grk “sons”; but clearly this is a generic reference to people of both genders.

[1:17]  ⁴⁹ tn Grk “before him”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:17]  ⁵⁰ sn These two lines cover all relationships: Turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children points to horizontal relationships, while (turn) the disobedient to the wisdom of the just shows what God gives from above in a vertical manner.

[1:18]  ⁵² tn Grk “And Zechariah.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[1:18]  ⁵³ tn Grk “How will I know this?”

[1:18]  ⁵⁴ tn Grk “is advanced in days” (an idiom for old age).