Psalms 18:8

18:8 Smoke ascended from ¹  his nose; ² 

fire devoured as it came from his mouth; ³ 

he hurled down fiery coals. ⁴ 

Psalms 30:3

30:3 O Lord, you pulled me ⁵  up from Sheol;

you rescued me from among those descending into the grave. ⁶ 

Psalms 40:2

40:2 He lifted me out of the watery pit, ⁷ 

out of the slimy mud. ⁸ 

He placed my feet on a rock

and gave me secure footing. ⁹ 

Psalms 51:19

51:19 Then you will accept ¹⁰  the proper sacrifices, burnt sacrifices and whole offerings;

then bulls will be sacrificed ¹¹  on your altar. ¹² 

Psalms 66:15

66:15 I will offer up to you fattened animals as burnt sacrifices,

along with the smell of sacrificial rams.

I will offer cattle and goats. (Selah)

Psalms 71:20

71:20 Though you have allowed me to experience much trouble and distress, ¹³ 

revive me once again! ¹⁴ 

Bring me up once again ¹⁵  from the depths of the earth!

Psalms 78:21

78:21 When ¹⁶  the Lord heard this, he was furious.

A fire broke out against Jacob,

and his anger flared up ¹⁷  against Israel,

Psalms 78:31

78:31 when the anger of God flared up against them.

He killed some of the strongest of them;

he brought the young men of Israel to their knees.

Psalms 81:10

81:10 I am the Lord, your God,

the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!’

Psalms 97:9

97:9 For you, O Lord, are the sovereign king ¹⁸  over the whole earth;

you are elevated high above all gods.

Psalms 102:24

102:24 I say, “O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! ¹⁹ 

You endure through all generations. ²⁰ 

Psalms 104:8

104:8 as the mountains rose up,

and the valleys went down –

to the place you appointed for them. ²¹ 

Psalms 122:4

122:4 The tribes go up ²²  there, ²³ 

the tribes of the Lord,

where it is required that Israel

give thanks to the name of the Lord. ²⁴ 

Psalms 132:3

132:3 He said, ²⁵  “I will not enter my own home, ²⁶ 

or get into my bed. ²⁷ 

Psalms 135:7

135:7 He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth,

makes lightning bolts accompany the rain,

and brings the wind out of his storehouses.

[18:8]  ¹ tn Heb “within”; or “[from] within.” For a discussion of the use of the preposition -בְּ (bÿ) here, see R. B. Chisholm, “An Exegetical and Theological Study of Psalm 18/2 Samuel 22” (Th.D. diss., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1983), 163-64.

[18:8]  ² tn Or “in his anger.” The noun אַף (’af) can carry the abstract meaning “anger,” but the parallelism (note “from his mouth”) suggests the more concrete meaning “nose” here. See also v. 15, “the powerful breath of your nose.”

[18:8]  ³ tn Heb “fire from his mouth devoured.” In this poetic narrative context the prefixed verbal form is best understood as a preterite indicating past tense, not an imperfect. Note the two perfect verbal forms in the verse.

[18:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “coals burned from him.” Perhaps the psalmist pictures God’s fiery breath igniting coals (cf. Job 41:21), which he then hurls as weapons (cf. Ps 120:4).

[30:3]  ⁵ tn Or “my life.”

[30:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “you kept me alive from those descending into the pit.” The Hebrew noun בוֹר (bor, “pit, cistern”) is sometimes used of the grave and/or the realm of the dead. The translation follows the consonantal Hebrew text (Kethib); the marginal reading (Qere) has, “you kept me alive so that I did not go down into the pit.”

[40:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “cistern of roaring.” The Hebrew noun בּוֹר (bor, “cistern, pit”) is used metaphorically here of Sheol, the place of death, which is sometimes depicted as a raging sea (see Ps 18:4, 15-16). The noun שָׁאוֹן (sha’on, “roaring”) refers elsewhere to the crashing sound of the sea’s waves (see Ps 65:7).

[40:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “from the mud of mud.” The Hebrew phrase translated “slimy mud” employs an appositional genitive. Two synonyms are joined in a construct relationship to emphasize the single idea. For a detailed discussion of the grammatical point with numerous examples, see Y. Avishur, “Pairs of Synonymous Words in the Construct State (and in Appositional Hendiadys) in Biblical Hebrew,” Semitics 2 (1971): 17-81.

[40:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he established my footsteps.”

[51:19]  ¹³ tn Or “desire, take delight in.”

[51:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “then they will offer up bulls.” The third plural subject is indefinite.

[51:19]  ¹⁵ sn Verses 18-19 appear to reflect the exilic period, when the city’s walls lay in ruins and the sacrificial system had been disrupted.

[71:20]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “you who have caused me to see many harmful distresses.”

[71:20]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “you return, you give me life.” The Hebrew term שׁוּב (shuv, “return”) is used here in an adverbial sense, indicating repetition of the action described by the following verb. The imperfects are understood here as expressing the psalmist’s prayer or wish. (Note the use of a distinctly jussive form at the beginning of v. 21.) Another option is to understand this as a statement of confidence, “you will revive me once again” (cf. NIV, NRSV).

[71:20]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “you return, you bring me up.” The Hebrew term שׁוּב (shuv, “return”) is used here in an adverbial sense, indicating repetition of the action described by the following verb. The imperfects are understood here as expressing the psalmist’s prayer or wish. (Note the use of a distinctly jussive form at the beginning of v. 21.) Another option is to understand this as a statement of confidence, “you will bring me up once again” (cf. NIV, NRSV).

[78:21]  ²¹ tn Heb “therefore.”

[78:21]  ²² tn Heb “and also anger went up.”

[97:9]  ²⁵ tn Traditionally “Most High.”

[102:24]  ²⁹ tn Heb “do not lift me up in the middle of my days.”

[102:24]  ³⁰ tn Heb “in a generation of generations [are] your years.”

[104:8]  ³³ tn Heb “from your shout they fled, from the sound of your thunder they hurried off.”

[122:4]  ³⁷ tn Or “went up.”

[122:4]  ³⁸ tn Heb “which is where the tribes go up.”

[122:4]  ³⁹ tn Heb “[it is] a statute for Israel to give thanks to the name of the Lord.”

[132:3]  ⁴¹ tn The words “he said” are supplied in the translation to clarify that what follows is David’s vow.

[132:3]  ⁴² tn Heb “the tent of my house.”

[132:3]  ⁴³ tn Heb “go up upon the bed of my couch.”