Psalms 119:91

119:91 Today they stand firm by your decrees,

for all things are your servants.

Psalms 90:13

90:13 Turn back toward us, O Lord!

How long must this suffering last? ¹ 

Have pity on your servants! ² 

Psalms 90:16

90:16 May your servants see your work! ³ 

May their sons see your majesty! ⁴ 

Psalms 102:28

102:28 The children of your servants will settle down here,

and their descendants ⁵  will live securely in your presence.” ⁶ 

Psalms 79:2

79:2 They have given the corpses of your servants

to the birds of the sky; ⁷ 

the flesh of your loyal followers

to the beasts of the earth.

Psalms 79:10

79:10 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servants

be avenged among the nations! ⁸ 

Psalms 89:50

89:50 Take note, O Lord, ⁹  of the way your servants are taunted, ¹⁰ 

and of how I must bear so many insults from people! ¹¹ 

Psalms 102:14

102:14 Indeed, ¹²  your servants take delight in her stones,

and feel compassion for ¹³  the dust of her ruins. ¹⁴ 

[90:13]  ¹ tn Heb “Return, O Lord! How long?”

[90:13]  ² tn Elsewhere the Niphal of נָחַם (nakham) + the preposition עַל (’al) + a personal object has the nuance “be comforted concerning [the personal object’s death]” (see 2 Sam 13:39; Jer 31:15). However, here the context seems to demand “feel sorrow for,” “have pity on.” In Deut 32:36 and Ps 135:14, where “servants” is also the object of the preposition, this idea is expressed with the Hitpael form of the verb.

[90:16]  ¹ tn Heb “may your work be revealed to your servants.” In this context (note v. 17) the verb form יֵרָאֶה (yera’eh) is best understood as an unshortened jussive (see Gen 1:9; Isa 47:3).

[90:16]  ² tn Heb “and your majesty to their sons.” The verb “be revealed” is understood by ellipsis in the second line.

[102:28]  ¹ tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”

[102:28]  ² tn Heb “before you will be established.”

[79:2]  ¹ tn Heb “[as] food for the birds of the sky.”

[79:10]  ¹ tn Heb “may it be known among the nations, to our eyes, the vengeance of the shed blood of your servants.”

[89:50]  ¹ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss read here יְהוָה (yehvah, “the Lord”).

[89:50]  ² tn Heb “remember, O Lord, the taunt against your servants.” Many medieval Hebrew mss read the singular here, “your servant” (that is, the psalmist).

[89:50]  ³ tn Heb “my lifting up in my arms [or “against my chest”] all of the many, peoples.” The term רַבִּים (rabbim, “many”) makes no apparent sense here. For this reason some emend the text to רִבֵי (rivey, “attacks by”), a defectively written plural construct form of רִיב (riv, “dispute; quarrel”).

[102:14]  ¹ tn Or “for.”

[102:14]  ² tn The Poel of חָנַן (khanan) occurs only here and in Prov 14:21, where it refers to having compassion on the poor.

[102:14]  ³ tn Heb “her dust,” probably referring to the dust of the city’s rubble.