Psalms 18:29

18:29 Indeed, ¹  with your help ²  I can charge against ³  an army; ⁴ 

by my God’s power ⁵  I can jump over a wall. ⁶ 

Psalms 59:4

59:4 Though I have done nothing wrong, ⁷  they are anxious to attack. ⁸ 

Spring into action and help me! Take notice of me! ⁹ 

Psalms 147:15

147:15 He ¹⁰  sends his command through the earth; ¹¹ 

swiftly his order reaches its destination. ¹² 

[18:29]  ¹ tn Or “for.” The translation assumes that כִּי (ki) is asseverative here.

[18:29]  ² tn Heb “by you.”

[18:29]  ³ tn Heb “I will run.” The imperfect verbal forms in v. 29 indicate the subject’s potential or capacity to perform an action. Though one might expect a preposition to follow the verb here, this need not be the case with the verb רוּץ (ruts; see 1 Sam 17:22). Some emend the Qal to a Hiphil form of the verb and translate, “I put to flight [Heb “cause to run”] an army.”

[18:29]  ⁴ tn More specifically, the noun גְּדוּד (gÿdud) refers to a raiding party or to a contingent of troops.

[18:29]  ⁵ tn Heb “and by my God.”

[18:29]  ⁶ sn I can jump over a wall. The psalmist uses hyperbole to emphasize his God-given military superiority.

[59:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “without sin.”

[59:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “they run and they are determined.”

[59:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “arise to meet me and see.” The Hebrew verb קָרָא (qara’, “to meet; to encounter”) here carries the nuance of “to help.”

[147:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “the one who.”

[147:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the one who sends his word, the earth.” The Hebrew term אֶרֶץ (’erets, “earth”) is an adverbial accusative; one must supply a preposition before it (such as “through” or “to”) in the English translation.

[147:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “swiftly his word runs.”