Psalms 26:8

26:8 O Lord, I love the temple where you live, ¹ 

the place where your splendor is revealed. ² 

Psalms 36:8

36:8 They are filled with food from your house,

and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.

Psalms 84:4

84:4 How blessed ³  are those who live in your temple

and praise you continually! (Selah)

Psalms 92:13

92:13 Planted in the Lord’s house,

they grow in the courts of our God.

Psalms 104:17

104:17 where the birds make nests,

near the evergreens in which the herons live. ⁴ 

Psalms 113:9--114:1

113:9 He makes the barren woman of the family ⁵ 

a happy mother of children. ⁶ 

Praise the Lord!

Psalm 114 ⁷ 

114:1 When Israel left Egypt,

when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind, ⁸ 

Psalms 115:10

115:10 O family ⁹  of Aaron, trust in the Lord!

He is their deliverer ¹⁰  and protector. ¹¹ 

Psalms 116:19

116:19 in the courts of the Lord’s temple,

in your midst, O Jerusalem.

Praise the Lord!

Psalms 118:3

118:3 Let the family ¹²  of Aaron say,

“Yes, his loyal love endures!”

Psalms 118:26

118:26 May the one who comes in the name of the Lord ¹³  be blessed!

We will pronounce blessings on you ¹⁴  in the Lord’s temple. ¹⁵ 

Psalms 122:5

122:5 Indeed, ¹⁶  the leaders sit ¹⁷  there on thrones and make legal decisions,

on the thrones of the house of David. ¹⁸ 

Psalms 122:9

122:9 For the sake of the temple of the Lord our God

I will pray for you to prosper. ¹⁹ 

[26:8]  ¹ tn Heb “the dwelling of your house.”

[26:8]  ² tn Heb “the place of the abode of your splendor.”

[84:4]  ³ tn The Hebrew noun is an abstract plural. The word often refers metonymically to the happiness that God-given security and prosperity produce (see v. 12 and Pss 1:1; 2:12; 34:9; 41:1; 65:4; 89:15; 106:3; 112:1; 127:5; 128:1; 144:15).

[104:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “[the] heron [in the] evergreens [is] its home.”

[113:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “of the house.”

[113:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “sons.”

[114:1]  ⁹ sn Psalm 114. The psalmist recalls the events of the exodus and conquest and celebrates God’s kingship over his covenant people.

[114:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the house of Jacob from a nation speaking a foreign language.” The Hebrew verb לָעַז (la’at, “to speak a foreign language”) occurs only here in the OT.

[115:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “house.”

[115:10]  ¹² tn Or “[source of] help.”

[115:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “and their shield.”

[118:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “house.”

[118:26]  ¹⁵ sn The people refer here to the psalmist, who enters the Lord’s temple to thank him publicly (see vv. 19-21), as the one who comes in the name of the Lord.

[118:26]  ¹⁶ tn The pronominal suffix is second masculine plural, but the final mem (ם) is probably dittographic (note the mem [מ] at the beginning of the following form) or enclitic, in which case the suffix may be taken as second masculine singular, referring to the psalmist.

[118:26]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “from the house of the Lord.”

[122:5]  ¹⁷ tn Or “for.”

[122:5]  ¹⁸ tn Or “sat.”

[122:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Indeed, there they sit [on] thrones for judgment, [on] thrones [belonging] to the house of David.”

[122:9]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “I will seek good for you.” The psalmist will seek Jerusalem’s “good” through prayer.