Psalms 13:2

13:2 How long must I worry, ¹ 

and suffer in broad daylight? ² 

How long will my enemy gloat over me? ³ 

Psalms 28:3

28:3 Do not drag me away with evil men,

with those who behave wickedly, ⁴ 

who talk so friendly to their neighbors, ⁵ 

while they plan to harm them! ⁶ 

Psalms 62:8

62:8 Trust in him at all times, you people!

Pour out your hearts before him! ⁷ 

God is our shelter! (Selah)

Psalms 95:10

95:10 For forty years I was continually disgusted ⁸  with that generation,

and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray; ⁹ 

they do not obey my commands.’ ¹⁰ 

Psalms 109:16

109:16 For he never bothered to show kindness; ¹¹ 

he harassed the oppressed and needy,

and killed the disheartened. ¹² 

[13:2]  ¹ tn Heb “How long will I put counsel in my being?”

[13:2]  ² tn Heb “[with] grief in my heart by day.”

[13:2]  ³ tn Heb “be exalted over me.” Perhaps one could translate, “How long will my enemy defeat me?”

[28:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “workers of wickedness.”

[28:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “speakers of peace with their neighbors.”

[28:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “and evil [is] in their heart[s].”

[62:8]  ⁷ tn To “pour out one’s heart” means to offer up to God intense, emotional lamentation and petitionary prayers (see Lam 2:19).

[95:10]  ¹⁰ tn The prefixed verbal form is either a preterite or an imperfect. If the latter, it emphasizes the ongoing nature of the condition in the past. The translation reflects this interpretation of the verbal form.

[95:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “a people, wanderers of heart [are] they.”

[95:10]  ¹² tn Heb “and they do not know my ways.” In this context the Lord’s “ways” are his commands, viewed as a pathway from which his people, likened to wayward sheep (see v. 7), wander.

[109:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “he did not remember to do loyal love.”

[109:16]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and he chased an oppressed and needy man, and one timid of heart to put [him] to death.”