Psalms 13:5

13:5 But I ¹  trust in your faithfulness.

May I rejoice because of your deliverance! ² 

Psalms 28:7

28:7 The Lord strengthens and protects me; ³ 

I trust in him with all my heart. ⁴ 

I am rescued ⁵  and my heart is full of joy; ⁶ 

I will sing to him in gratitude. ⁷ 

Psalms 30:10-12

30:10 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy on me!

O Lord, deliver me!” ⁸ 

30:11 Then you turned my lament into dancing;

you removed my sackcloth and covered me with joy. ⁹ 

30:12 So now ¹⁰  my heart ¹¹  will sing to you and not be silent;

O Lord my God, I will always ¹²  give thanks to you.

Psalms 32:10-11

32:10 An evil person suffers much pain, ¹³ 

but the Lord’s faithfulness overwhelms the one who trusts in him. ¹⁴ 

32:11 Rejoice in the Lord and be happy, you who are godly!

Shout for joy, all you who are morally upright! ¹⁵ 

Isaiah 25:9

25:9 At that time they will say, ¹⁶ 

“Look, here ¹⁷  is our God!

We waited for him and he delivered us.

Here ¹⁸  is the Lord! We waited for him.

Let’s rejoice and celebrate his deliverance!”

Zechariah 10:7

10:7 The Ephraimites will be like warriors and will rejoice as if they had drunk wine. Their children will see it and rejoice; they will celebrate in the things of the Lord.

John 16:22

16:22 So also you have sorrow ¹⁹  now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. ²⁰ 

[13:5]  ¹ tn The grammatical construction used here (conjunction with independent pronoun) highlights the contrast between the psalmist’s defeated condition envisioned in v. 4 and confident attitude he displays in v. 5.

[13:5]  ² tn Heb “may my heart rejoice in your deliverance.” The verb form is jussive. Having expressed his trust in God’s faithful character and promises, the psalmist prays that his confidence will prove to be well-placed. “Heart” is used here of the seat of the emotions.

[28:7]  ³ tn Heb “The Lord [is] my strength and my shield.”

[28:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “in him my heart trusts.”

[28:7]  ⁵ tn Or “I am helped.”

[28:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “and my heart exults.”

[28:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “and from my song I will thank him.” As pointed in the Hebrew text, מִשִּׁירִי (mishiri) appears to be “from my song,” but the preposition “from” never occurs elsewhere with the verb “to thank” (Hiphil of יָדָה, yadah). Perhaps משׁיר is a noun form meaning “song.” If so, it can be taken as an adverbial accusative, “and [with] my song I will thank him.” See P. C. Craigie, Psalms 1-50 (WBC), 236.

[30:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “be a helper to me.”

[30:11]  ⁹ sn Covered me with joy. “Joy” probably stands metonymically for festive attire here.

[30:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “so that”; or “in order that.”

[30:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “glory.” Some view כָבוֹד (khavod, “glory”) here as a metonymy for man’s inner being (see BDB 459 s.v. II כָּבוֹד 5), but it is preferable to emend the form to כְּבֵדִי (kÿvediy, “my liver”). Like the heart, the liver is viewed as the seat of one’s emotions. See also Pss 16:9; 57:9; 108:1, as well as H. W. Wolff, Anthropology of the Old Testament, 64, and M. Dahood, Psalms (AB), 1:90. For an Ugaritic example of the heart/liver as the source of joy, see G. R. Driver, Canaanite Myths and Legends, 47-48: “her [Anat’s] liver swelled with laughter, her heart was filled with joy, the liver of Anat with triumph.” “Heart” is used in the translation above for the sake of English idiom; the expression “my liver sings” would seem odd indeed to the modern reader.

[30:12]  ¹² tn Or “forever.”

[32:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “many [are the] pains of evil [one].” The singular form is representative here; the typical evildoer, representative of the larger group of wicked people, is in view.

[32:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “but the one who trusts in the Lord, faithfulness surrounds him.”

[32:11]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “all [you] pure of heart.” The “heart” is here viewed as the seat of one’s moral character and motives. The “pure of heart” are God’s faithful followers who trust in and love the Lord and, as a result, experience his deliverance (see Pss 7:10; 11:2; 36:10; 64:10; 94:15; 97:11).

[25:9]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and one will say in that day.”

[25:9]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “this [one].”

[25:9]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “this [one].”

[16:22]  ¹⁹ tn Or “distress.”

[16:22]  ²⁰ sn An allusion to Isa 66:14 LXX, which reads: “Then you will see, and your heart will be glad, and your bones will flourish like the new grass; and the hand of the Lord will be made known to his servants, but he will be indignant toward his enemies.” The change from “you will see [me]” to I will see you places more emphasis on Jesus as the one who reinitiates the relationship with the disciples after his resurrection, but v. 16 (you will see me) is more like Isa 66:14. Further support for seeing this allusion as intentional is found in Isa 66:7, which uses the same imagery of the woman giving birth found in John 16:21. In the context of Isa 66 the passages refer to the institution of the messianic kingdom, and in fact the last clause of 66:14 along with the following verses (15-17) have yet to be fulfilled. This is part of the tension of present and future eschatological fulfillment that runs throughout the NT, by virtue of the fact that there are two advents. Some prophecies are fulfilled or partially fulfilled at the first advent, while other prophecies or parts of prophecies await fulfillment at the second.