Psalms 34:14

34:14 Turn away from evil and do what is right! ¹ 

Strive for peace and promote it! ² 

Psalms 85:10

85:10 Loyal love and faithfulness meet; ³ 

deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. ⁴ 

Psalms 120:6

120:6 For too long I have had to reside

with those who hate ⁵  peace.

Psalms 122:6-8

122:6 Pray ⁶  for the peace of Jerusalem!

May those who love her prosper! ⁷ 

122:7 May there be peace inside your defenses,

and prosperity ⁸  inside your fortresses! ⁹ 

122:8 For the sake of my brothers and my neighbors

I will say, “May there be peace in you!”

Psalms 128:6

128:6 and that you might see ¹⁰  your grandchildren. ¹¹ 

May Israel experience peace! ¹² 

[34:14]  ¹ tn Or “do good.”

[34:14]  ² tn Heb “seek peace and pursue it.”

[85:10]  ³ tn The psalmist probably uses the perfect verbal forms in v. 10 in a dramatic or rhetorical manner, describing what he anticipates as if it were already occurring or had already occurred.

[85:10]  ⁴ sn Deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. The psalmist personifies these abstract qualities to emphasize that God’s loyal love and faithfulness will yield deliverance and peace for his people.

[120:6]  ⁵ tn The singular participial form probably has a representative function here. The psalmist envisions the typical hater of peace who represents the entire category of such individuals.

[122:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “ask [for].”

[122:6]  ⁸ tn Or “be secure.”

[122:7]  ⁹ tn or “security.”

[122:7]  ¹⁰ tn The psalmist uses second feminine singular pronominal forms to address personified Jerusalem.

[128:6]  ¹¹ tn The imperative with prefixed vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the jussive in v. 5a.

[128:6]  ¹² tn Heb “sons to your sons.”

[128:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “peace [be] upon Israel.” The statement is understood as a prayer (see Ps 125:5).