Psalms 22:22

22:22 I will declare your name to my countrymen! ¹ 

In the middle of the assembly I will praise you!

Psalms 22:27

22:27 Let all the people of the earth acknowledge the Lord and turn to him! ² 

Let all the nations ³  worship you! ⁴ 

Psalms 51:13

51:13 Then I will teach ⁵  rebels your merciful ways, ⁶ 

and sinners will turn ⁷  to you.

Psalms 69:30-32

69:30 I will sing praises to God’s name! ⁸ 

I will magnify him as I give him thanks! ⁹ 

69:31 That will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull

with horns and hooves.

69:32 The oppressed look on – let them rejoice!

You who seek God, ¹⁰  may you be encouraged! ¹¹ 

Psalms 71:18

71:18 Even when I am old and gray, ¹² 

O God, do not abandon me,

until I tell the next generation about your strength,

and those coming after me about your power. ¹³ 

[22:22]  ¹ tn Or “brothers,” but here the term does not carry a literal familial sense. It refers to the psalmist’s fellow members of the Israelite covenant community (see v. 23).

[22:27]  ² tn Heb “may all the ends of the earth remember and turn to the Lord.” The prefixed verbal forms in v. 27 are understood as jussives (cf. NEB). Another option (cf. NIV, NRSV) is to take the forms as imperfects and translate, “all the people of the earth will acknowledge and turn…and worship.” See vv. 29-32.

[22:27]  ³ tn Heb “families of the nations.”

[22:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “before you.”

[51:13]  ⁵ tn The cohortative expresses the psalmist’s resolve. This may be a vow or promise. If forgiven, the psalmist will “repay” the Lord by declaring God’s mercy and motivating other sinners to repent.

[51:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “your ways.” The word “merciful” is added for clarification. God’s “ways” are sometimes his commands, but in this context, where the teaching of God’s ways motivates repentance (see the next line), it is more likely that God’s merciful and compassionate way of dealing with sinners is in view. Thanksgiving songs praising God for his deliverance typically focus on these divine attributes (see Pss 34, 41, 116, 138).

[51:13]  ⁷ tn Or “return,” i.e., in repentance.

[69:30]  ⁸ tn Heb “I will praise the name of God with a song.”

[69:30]  ⁹ tn Heb “I will magnify him with thanks.”

[69:32]  ¹⁰ sn You who seek God refers to those who seek to have a relationship with God by obeying and worshiping him (see Ps 53:2).

[69:32]  ¹¹ tn Heb “may your heart[s] live.” See Ps 22:26.

[71:18]  ¹² tn Heb “and even unto old age and gray hair.”

[71:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “until I declare your arm to a generation, to everyone who comes your power.” God’s “arm” here is an anthropomorphism that symbolizes his great strength.