Psalms 26:7

26:7 to give you thanks, ¹ 

and to tell about all your amazing deeds. ² 

Psalms 27:7

27:7 Hear me, ³  O Lord, when I cry out!

Have mercy on me and answer me!

Psalms 28:6

28:6 The Lord deserves praise, ⁴ 

for he has heard my plea for mercy! ⁵ 

Psalms 66:8

66:8 Praise ⁶  our God, you nations!

Loudly proclaim his praise! ⁷ 

Psalms 66:19

66:19 However, God heard;

he listened to my prayer.

Psalms 78:3

78:3 What we have heard and learned ⁸  –

that which our ancestors ⁹  have told us –

Psalms 78:59

78:59 God heard and was angry;

he completely rejected Israel.

Psalms 106:25

106:25 They grumbled in their tents; ¹⁰ 

they did not obey ¹¹  the Lord.

Psalms 106:44

106:44 Yet he took notice of their distress,

when he heard their cry for help.

Psalms 119:149

119:149 Listen to me ¹²  because of ¹³  your loyal love!

O Lord, revive me, as you typically do! ¹⁴ 

Psalms 132:6

132:6 Look, we heard about it ¹⁵  in Ephrathah, ¹⁶ 

we found it in the territory of Jaar. ¹⁷ 

[26:7]  ¹ tn Heb “to cause to be heard the sound of thanksgiving.”

[26:7]  ² tn The two infinitival forms (both with prefixed preposition -לְ, lamed) give the purpose for his appearance at the altar.

[27:7]  ³ tn Heb “my voice.”

[28:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “blessed [be] the Lord.”

[28:6]  ⁶ 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.

[66:8]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ tn Heb “cause the voice of his praise to be heard.”

[78:3]  ⁹ tn Or “known.”

[78:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 5, 8, 12, 57).

[106:25]  ¹¹ sn They grumbled in their tents. See Deut 1:27.

[106:25]  ¹² tn Heb “did not listen to the voice of.”

[119:149]  ¹³ tn Heb “my voice.”

[119:149]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “according to.”

[119:149]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “according to your custom.”

[132:6]  ¹⁵ tn Rather than having an antecedent, the third feminine singular pronominal suffix here (and in the next line) appears to refer to the ark of the covenant, mentioned in v. 8. (The Hebrew term אָרוֹן [’aron, “ark”] is sometimes construed as grammatically feminine. See 1 Sam 4:17; 2 Chr 8:11.)

[132:6]  ¹⁶ sn Some understand Ephrathah as a reference to Kiriath-jearim because of the apparent allusion to this site in the next line (see the note on “Jaar”). The ark was kept in Kiriath-jearim after the Philistines released it (see 1 Sam 6:21-7:2). However, the switch in verbs from “heard about” to “found” suggests that Ephrathah not be equated with Jair. The group who is speaking heard about the ark while they were in Ephrath. They then went to retrieve it from Kiriath-jearim (“Jaar”). It is more likely that Ephrathah refers to a site near Bethel (Gen 35:16, 19; 48:7) or to Bethlehem (Ruth 4:11; Mic 5:2).

[132:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “fields of the forest.” The Hebrew term יָעַר (ya’ad, “forest”) is apparently a shortened alternative name for קִרְיַת יְעָרִים (qiryat yÿ’arim, “Kiriath-jearim”), the place where the ark was kept after it was released by the Philistines and from which David and his men retrieved it (see 1 Chr 13:6).