Psalms 26:12

26:12 I am safe, ¹ 

and among the worshipers I will praise the Lord.

Psalms 28:6

28:6 The Lord deserves praise, ² 

for he has heard my plea for mercy! ³ 

Psalms 37:22

37:22 Surely ⁴  those favored by the Lord ⁵  will possess the land,

but those rejected ⁶  by him will be wiped out. ⁷ 

Psalms 66:8

66:8 Praise ⁸  our God, you nations!

Loudly proclaim his praise! ⁹ 

Psalms 89:52

89:52 ¹⁰ The Lord deserves praise ¹¹  forevermore!

We agree! We agree! ¹² 

Psalms 107:38

107:38 He blessed ¹³  them so that they became very numerous.

He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number. ¹⁴ 

Psalms 115:13

115:13 He will bless his loyal followers, ¹⁵ 

both young and old. ¹⁶ 

Psalms 115:15

115:15 May you be blessed by the Lord,

the creator ¹⁷  of heaven and earth!

Psalms 119:12

119:12 You deserve praise, ¹⁸  O Lord!

Teach me your statutes!

Psalms 124:6

124:6 The Lord deserves praise, ¹⁹ 

for ²⁰  he did not hand us over as prey to their teeth.

Psalms 134:2-3

134:2 Lift your hands toward the sanctuary

and praise the Lord!

134:3 May the Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth,

bless you ²¹  from Zion! ²² 

Psalms 145:10

145:10 All he has made will give thanks to the Lord.

Your loyal followers will praise you.

[26:12]  ¹ tn Heb “my foot stands in a level place.”

[28:6]  ² tn Heb “blessed [be] the Lord.”

[28:6]  ³ sn He has heard my plea for mercy. The psalmist’s mood abruptly changes at this point, because the Lord responded positively to his petition and assured him that he would deliver him.

[37:22]  ³ tn The particle כִּי is best understood as asseverative or emphatic here.

[37:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “those blessed by him.” The pronoun “him” must refer to the Lord (see vv. 20, 23), so the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[37:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “cursed.”

[37:22]  ⁶ tn Or “cut off”; or “removed” (see v. 9).

[66:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “bless,” in the sense of declaring “God to be the source of…special power” (see HALOT 160 s.v. II ברך pi).

[66:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “cause the voice of his praise to be heard.”

[89:52]  ⁵ sn The final verse of Ps 89, v. 52, is a conclusion to this third “book” (or major editorial division) of the Psalter. Similar statements appear at or near the end of each of the first, second and fourth “books” of the Psalter (see Pss 41:13; 72:18-19; 106:48, respectively).

[89:52]  ⁶ tn Heb “[be] blessed.” See Pss 18:46; 28:6; 31:21.

[89:52]  ⁷ tn Heb “surely and surely” (אָמֵן וְאָמֵן [’amen vÿ’amen], i.e., “Amen and amen”). This is probably a congregational response to the immediately preceding statement about the propriety of praising God; thus it has been translated “We agree! We agree!”

[107:38]  ⁶ tn “Bless” here carries the nuance “endue with sexual potency, make fertile.” See Gen 1:28, where the statement “he blessed them” directly precedes the command “be fruitful and populate the earth” (see also 1:22). The verb “bless” carries this same nuance in Gen 17:16 (where God’s blessing of Sarai imparts to her the capacity to bear a child); 48:16 (where God’s blessing of Joseph’s sons is closely associated with their having numerous descendants); and Deut 7:13 (where God’s blessing is associated with fertility in general, including numerous descendants). See also Gen 49:25 (where Jacob uses the noun derivative in referring to “blessings of the breast and womb,” an obvious reference to fertility) and Gen 27:27 (where the verb is used of a field to which God has given the capacity to produce vegetation).

[107:38]  ⁷ tn The verbal form in this line appears to be an imperfect, which may be taken as customary (drawing attention to typical action in a past time frame) or as generalizing (in which case one should use the English present tense, understanding a move from narrative to present reality).

[115:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “the fearers of the Lord.”

[115:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “the small along with the great.” The translation assumes that “small” and “great” here refer to age (see 2 Chr 15:13). Another option is to translate “both the insignificant and the prominent” (see Job 3:19; cf. NEB “high and low alike”).

[115:15]  ⁸ tn Or “maker.”

[119:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “[are] blessed.”

[124:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “blessed [be] the Lord.”

[124:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “[the one] who.”

[134:3]  ¹¹ tn The pronominal suffix is second masculine singular, suggesting that the servants addressed in vv. 1-2 are responding to the psalmist.

[134:3]  ¹² tn Heb “may the Lord bless you from Zion, the maker of heaven and earth.”