Psalms 27:5

27:5 He will surely ¹  give me shelter ²  in the day of danger; ³ 

he will hide me in his home; ⁴ 

he will place me ⁵  on an inaccessible rocky summit. ⁶ 

Psalms 61:2

61:2 From the most remote place on earth ⁷ 

I call out to you in my despair. ⁸ 

Lead me ⁹  up to an inaccessible rocky summit! ¹⁰ 

Matthew 7:24-25

Hearing and Doing

7:24 “Everyone ¹¹  who hears these words of mine and does them is like ¹²  a wise man ¹³  who built his house on rock. 7:25 The rain fell, the flood ¹⁴  came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock.

[27:5]  ¹ tn Or “for he will.” The translation assumes the כִּי (ki) is asseverative here, rather than causal.

[27:5]  ² tn Heb “he will hide me in his hut.”

[27:5]  ³ tn Or “trouble.”

[27:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “tent.”

[27:5]  ⁵ tn The three imperfect verb forms in v. 5 anticipate a positive response to the prayer offered in vv. 7-12.

[27:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “on a rocky summit he lifts me up.” The Lord places the psalmist in an inaccessible place where his enemies cannot reach him. See Ps 18:2.

[61:2]  ⁷ tn 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]  ⁸ tn Heb “while my heart faints.”

[61:2]  ⁹ tn The imperfect verbal form here expresses the psalmist’s wish or prayer.

[61:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “on to a rocky summit [that] is higher than I.”

[7:24]  ¹¹ tn Grk “Therefore everyone.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.

[7:24]  ¹² tn Grk “will be like.” The same phrase occurs in v. 26.

[7:24]  ¹³ tn Here and in v. 26 the Greek text reads ἀνήρ (anhr), while the parallel account in Luke 6:47-49 uses ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") in vv. 48 and 49.

[7:25]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “the rivers.”