Psalms 17:7

17:7 Accomplish awesome, faithful deeds, ¹ 

you who powerfully deliver those who look to you for protection from their enemies. ² 

Psalms 44:7

44:7 For you deliver ³  us from our enemies;

you humiliate ⁴  those who hate us.

Psalms 80:3

80:3 O God, restore us!

Smile on us! ⁵  Then we will be delivered! ⁶ 

Psalms 106:8

106:8 Yet he delivered them for the sake of his reputation, ⁷ 

that he might reveal his power.

Psalms 106:10

106:10 He delivered them from the power ⁸  of the one who hated them,

and rescued ⁹  them from the power ¹⁰  of the enemy.

Psalms 106:21

106:21 They rejected ¹¹  the God who delivered them,

the one who performed great deeds in Egypt,

Psalms 109:26

109:26 Help me, O Lord my God!

Because you are faithful to me, deliver me! ¹² 

Psalms 116:6

116:6 The Lord protects ¹³  the untrained; ¹⁴ 

I was in serious trouble ¹⁵  and he delivered me.

Psalms 119:94

119:94 I belong to you. Deliver me!

For I seek your precepts.

Psalms 119:117

119:117 Support me, so that I will be delivered.

Then I will focus ¹⁶  on your statutes continually.

Psalms 119:146

119:146 I cried out to you, “Deliver me,

so that I can keep ¹⁷  your rules.”

[17:7]  ¹ tn Heb “Set apart faithful acts.”

[17:7]  ² tn Heb “[O] one who delivers those who seek shelter from the ones raising themselves up, by your right hand.” The Lord’s “right hand” here symbolizes his power to protect and deliver.

[44:7]  ³ tn Or “have delivered,” if past successes are in view. Another option is to take the perfect as rhetorical, emphasizing that victory is certain (note the use of the imperfect in vv. 5-6).

[44:7]  ⁴ tn Or “have humiliated,” if past successes are in view. Another option is to take the perfect as rhetorical, emphasizing that victory is certain (note the use of the imperfect in vv. 5-6).

[80:3]  ⁵ tn The idiom “cause your face to shine” probably refers to a smile (see Eccl 8:1), which in turn suggests favor and blessing (see Num 6:25; Pss 4:6; 31:16; 44:3; 67:1; 89:15; Dan 9:17).

[80:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “cause your face to shine in order that we may be delivered.” After the imperative, the cohortative with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose/result.

[106:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “his name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.

[106:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “hand.”

[106:10]  ¹⁰ tn Or “redeemed.”

[106:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “hand.”

[106:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “forgot.”

[109:26]  ¹³ tn Heb “deliver me according to your faithfulness.”

[116:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “guards.” The active participle indicates this is a characteristic of the Lord.

[116:6]  ¹⁶ tn Or “the [morally] naive,” that is, the one who is young and still in the process of learning right from wrong and distinguishing wisdom from folly. See Ps 19:7.

[116:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “I was low.”

[119:117]  ¹⁷ tn Or “and that I might focus.” The two cohortatives with vav (ו) conjunctive indicate purpose/result after the imperative at the beginning of the verse.

[119:146]  ¹⁹ tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.