Psalms 25:5

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25:5 Guide me into your truth¹ and teach me.

For you are the God who delivers me;

on you I rely all day long.

Psalms 35:27

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35:27 May those who desire my vindication shout for joy and rejoice!

May they continually say,² “May the Lord be praised,³ for he wants his servant to be secure.”⁴

Psalms 43:2

Context

43:2 For you are the God who shelters me.⁵

Why do you reject me?⁶

Why must I walk around⁷ mourning⁸

because my enemies oppress me?

Psalms 61:2

Context

61:2 From the most remote place on earth⁹

I call out to you in my despair.¹⁰

Lead me¹¹ up to an inaccessible rocky summit!¹²

[25:5] ¹sn The Lord’s commandments are referred to as truth here because they are a trustworthy and accurate expression of the divine will.

[35:27] ²tn The prefixed verbal forms in v. 27a are understood as jussives (see vv. 24b-26).

[35:27] ³tn The prefixed verbal form is taken as a jussive, “may the Lord be magnified [in praise].” Another option is to take the verb as an imperfect, “the Lord is great.”

[35:27] ⁴tn Heb “the one who desires the peace of his servant.”

[43:2] ³tn Heb “God of my place of refuge,” that is, “God who is my place of refuge.” See Ps 31:4.

[43:2] ⁴tn The question is similar to that of Ps 42:9, but זָנַח (zanakh, “reject”) is a stronger verb than שָׁכַח (shakhakh, “forget”).

[43:2] ⁵tn The language is similar to that of Ps 42:9, but the Hitpael form of the verb הָלַךְ (halakh; as opposed to the Qal form in 42:9) expresses more forcefully the continuing nature of the psalmist’s distress.

[43:2] ⁶sn Walk around mourning. See Ps 38:6 for a similar statement.

[61:2] ⁴tn Heb “from the end of the earth.” This may indicate (1) the psalmist is exiled in a distant land, or (2) it may be hyperbolic (the psalmist feels alienated from God’s presence, as if he were in a distant land).

[61:2] ⁵tn Heb “while my heart faints.”

[61:2] ⁶tn The imperfect verbal form here expresses the psalmist’s wish or prayer.

[61:2] ⁷tn Heb “on to a rocky summit [that] is higher than I.”