Psalms 18:41

18:41 They cry out, but there is no one to help them; ¹ 

they cry out to the Lord, ²  but he does not answer them.

Psalms 22:2

22:2 My God, I cry out during the day,

but you do not answer,

and during the night my prayers do not let up. ³ 

Psalms 27:7

27:7 Hear me, ⁴  O Lord, when I cry out!

Have mercy on me and answer me!

Psalms 28:2

28:2 Hear my plea for mercy when I cry out to you for help,

when I lift my hands ⁵  toward your holy temple! ⁶ 

Psalms 34:6

34:6 This oppressed man cried out and the Lord heard;

he saved him ⁷  from all his troubles.

Psalms 34:17

34:17 The godly ⁸  cry out and the Lord hears;

he saves them from all their troubles. ⁹ 

Psalms 63:4

63:4 For this reason ¹⁰  I will praise you while I live;

in your name I will lift up my hands. ¹¹ 

Psalms 69:3

69:3 I am exhausted from shouting for help;

my throat is sore; ¹² 

my eyes grow tired of looking for my God. ¹³ 

Psalms 77:11

77:11 I will remember the works of the Lord.

Yes, I will remember the amazing things you did long ago! ¹⁴ 

Psalms 83:18

83:18 Then they will know ¹⁵  that you alone are the Lord, ¹⁶ 

the sovereign king ¹⁷  over all the earth.

Psalms 89:15

89:15 How blessed are the people who worship you! ¹⁸ 

O Lord, they experience your favor. ¹⁹ 

Psalms 96:4

96:4 For the Lord is great and certainly worthy of praise;

he is more awesome than all gods. ²⁰ 

Psalms 109:7

109:7 When he is judged, he will be found ²¹  guilty! ²² 

Then his prayer will be regarded as sinful.

Psalms 119:145

ק (Qof)

119:145 I cried out with all my heart, “Answer me, O Lord!

I will observe your statutes.”

Psalms 147:9

147:9 He gives food to the animals,

and to the young ravens when they chirp. ²³ 

[18:41]  ¹ tn Heb “but there is no deliverer.”

[18:41]  ² tn Heb “to the Lord.” The words “they cry out” are supplied in the translation because they are understood by ellipsis (see the preceding line).

[22:2]  ³ tn Heb “there is no silence to me.”

[27:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “my voice.”

[28:2]  ⁷ sn I lift my hands. Lifting one’s hands toward God was a gesture of prayer.

[28:2]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew term דְּבִיר (dÿvir, “temple”) actually refers to the most holy place within the sanctuary.

[34:6]  ⁹ tn The pronoun refers back to “this oppressed man,” namely, the psalmist.

[34:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “they” (i.e., the godly mentioned in v. 15).

[34:17]  ¹² tn The three perfect verbal forms are taken in a generalizing sense in v. 17 and translated with the present tense (note the generalizing mood of vv. 18-22).

[63:4]  ¹³ tn Or perhaps “then.”

[63:4]  ¹⁴ sn I will lift up my hands. Lifting up one’s hands toward God was a gesture of prayer (see Ps 28:2; Lam 2:19) or respect (Ps 119:48).

[69:3]  ¹⁵ tn Or perhaps “raw”; Heb “burned; enflamed.”

[69:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “my eyes fail from waiting for my God.” The psalmist has intently kept his eyes open, looking for God to intervene, but now his eyes are watery and bloodshot, impairing his vision.

[77:11]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “yes, I will remember from old your wonders.”

[83:18]  ¹⁹ tn After the preceding jussives (v. 17), the prefixed verbal form with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose (“so that they may know”) or result.

[83:18]  ²⁰ tn Heb “that you, your name [is] the Lord, you alone.”

[83:18]  ²¹ tn Traditionally “the Most High.”

[89:15]  ²¹ tn Heb “who know the shout.” “Shout” here refers to the shouts of the Lord’s worshipers (see Pss 27:6; 33:3; 47:5).

[89:15]  ²² tn Heb “in the light of your face they walk.” The idiom “light of your face” 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; 80:3, 7, 19; Dan 9:17).

[96:4]  ²³ tn Or perhaps “and feared by all gods.” See Ps 89:7.

[109:7]  ²⁵ tn The prefixed verbal form could be taken as a jussive, but the use of the imperfect form in the following line suggests that v. 7 anticipates the outcome of the accusation envisioned in v. 6.

[109:7]  ²⁶ tn Heb “he will go out [as] a criminal” (that is, guilty).

[147:9]  ²⁷ tn Heb “which cry out.”