Psalms 18:46

18:46 The Lord is alive! ¹ 

My protector ²  is praiseworthy! ³ 

The God who delivers me ⁴  is exalted as king! ⁵ 

Psalms 62:2

62:2 He alone is my protector ⁶  and deliverer.

He is my refuge; ⁷  I will not be upended. ⁸ 

Psalms 62:6-7

62:6 He alone is my protector ⁹  and deliverer.

He is my refuge; ¹⁰  I will not be upended. ¹¹ 

62:7 God delivers me and exalts me;

God is my strong protector and my shelter. ¹² 

Psalms 95:1-2

Psalm 95 ¹³ 

95:1 Come! Let’s sing for joy to the Lord!

Let’s shout out praises to our protector who delivers us! ¹⁴ 

95:2 Let’s enter his presence ¹⁵  with thanksgiving!

Let’s shout out to him in celebration! ¹⁶ 

Psalms 22:1

Psalm 22 ¹⁷ 

For the music director; according to the tune “Morning Doe;” ¹⁸  a psalm of David.

22:1 My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? ¹⁹ 

I groan in prayer, but help seems far away. ²⁰ 

Isaiah 50:7-9

50:7 But the sovereign Lord helps me,

so I am not humiliated.

For that reason I am steadfastly resolved; ²¹ 

I know I will not be put to shame.

50:8 The one who vindicates me is close by.

Who dares to argue with me? Let us confront each other! ²² 

Who is my accuser? ²³  Let him challenge me! ²⁴ 

50:9 Look, the sovereign Lord helps me.

Who dares to condemn me?

Look, all of them will wear out like clothes;

a moth will eat away at them.

[18:46]  ¹ tn Elsewhere the construction חַי־יְהוָה (khay-yÿhvah) is used exclusively as an oath formula, “as surely as the Lord lives,” but this is not the case here, for no oath follows. Here the statement is an affirmation of the Lord’s active presence and intervention. In contrast to pagan deities, he demonstrates he is the living God by rescuing and empowering the psalmist.

[18:46]  ² tn Heb “my rocky cliff,” which is a metaphor for protection. See similar phrases in vv. 2, 31.

[18:46]  ³ tn Or “blessed [i.e., praised] be.”

[18:46]  ⁴ tn Heb “the God of my deliverance.” 2 Sam 22:48 reads, “the God of the rocky cliff of my deliverance.”

[18:46]  ⁵ tn The words “as king” are supplied in the translation for clarification. Elsewhere in the psalms the verb רוּם (rum, “be exalted”), when used of God, refers to his exalted position as king (Pss 99:2; 113:4; 138:6) and/or his self-revelation as king through his mighty deeds of deliverance (Pss 21:13; 46:10; 57:5, 11).

[62:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “my high rocky summit.”

[62:2]  ⁷ tn Or “my elevated place” (see Ps 18:2).

[62:2]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text adds רַבָּה (rabbah, “greatly”) at the end of the line. It is unusual for this adverb to follow a negated verb. Some see this as qualifying the assertion to some degree, but this would water down the affirmation too much (see v. 6b, where the adverb is omitted). If the adverb has a qualifying function, it would suggest that the psalmist might be upended, though not severely. This is inconsistent with the confident mood of the psalm. The adverb probably has an emphatic force here, “I will not be greatly upended” meaning “I will not be annihilated.”

[62:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “my high rocky summit.”

[62:6]  ¹⁰ tn Or “my elevated place” (see Ps 18:2).

[62:6]  ¹¹ sn The wording is identical to that of v. 2, except that רַבָּה (rabbah, “greatly”) does not appear in v. 6.

[62:7]  ¹² tn Heb “upon God [is] my deliverance and my glory, the high rocky summit of my strength, my shelter [is] in God.”

[95:1]  ¹³ sn Psalm 95. The psalmist summons Israel to praise God as the creator of the world and the nation’s protector, but he also reminds the people not to rebel against God.

[95:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “to the rocky summit of our deliverance.”

[95:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “meet his face.”

[95:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “with songs of joy.”

[22:1]  ¹⁷ sn Psalm 22. The psalmist cries out to the Lord for deliverance from his dangerous enemies, who have surrounded him and threaten his life. Confident that the Lord will intervene, he then vows to thank the Lord publicly for his help and anticipates a time when all people will recognize the Lord’s greatness and worship him.

[22:1]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “according to the doe of the dawn.” Apparently this refers to a particular musical tune or style.

[22:1]  ¹⁹ sn From the psalmist’s perspective it seems that God has abandoned him, for he fails to answer his cry for help (vv. 1b-2).

[22:1]  ²⁰ tn Heb “far from my deliverance [are] the words of my groaning.” The Hebrew noun שְׁאָגָה (shÿ’agah) and its related verb שָׁאַג (sha’ag) are sometimes used of a lion’s roar, but they can also describe human groaning (see Job 3:24 and Pss 32:3 and 38:8.

[50:7]  ²¹ tn Heb “Therefore I set my face like flint.”

[50:8]  ²² tn Heb “Let us stand together!”

[50:8]  ²³ tn Heb “Who is the master of my judgment?”

[50:8]  ²⁴ tn Heb “let him approach me”; NAB, NIV “Let him confront me.”