Psalms 34:21

34:21 Evil people self-destruct; ¹ 

those who hate the godly are punished. ² 

Psalms 34:2

34:2 I will boast ³  in the Lord;

let the oppressed hear and rejoice! ⁴ 

Psalms 22:1

Psalm 22 ⁵ 

For the music director; according to the tune “Morning Doe;” ⁶  a psalm of David.

22:1 My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? ⁷ 

I groan in prayer, but help seems far away. ⁸ 

Proverbs 8:36

8:36 But the one who does not find me ⁹  brings harm ¹⁰  to himself; ¹¹ 

all who hate me ¹²  love death.”

John 15:23

15:23 The one who hates me hates my Father too.

[34:21]  ¹ tn Heb “evil kills the wicked [one].” The singular form is representative; the typical evil person is envisioned. The Hebrew imperfect verbal form draws attention to the typical nature of the action.

[34:21]  ² tn Heb “are guilty,” but the verb is sometimes used metonymically with the meaning “to suffer the consequences of guilt,” the effect being substituted for the cause.

[34:2]  ³ tn Heb “my soul will boast”; or better, “let my soul boast.” Following the cohortative form in v. 1, it is likely that the prefixed verbal form here is jussive.

[34:2]  ⁴ tn The two prefixed verbal forms in this verse are best taken as jussives, for the psalmist is calling his audience to worship (see v. 3).

[22:1]  ⁵ sn Psalm 22. The psalmist cries out to the Lord for deliverance from his dangerous enemies, who have surrounded him and threaten his life. Confident that the Lord will intervene, he then vows to thank the Lord publicly for his help and anticipates a time when all people will recognize the Lord’s greatness and worship him.

[22:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “according to the doe of the dawn.” Apparently this refers to a particular musical tune or style.

[22:1]  ⁷ sn From the psalmist’s perspective it seems that God has abandoned him, for he fails to answer his cry for help (vv. 1b-2).

[22:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “far from my deliverance [are] the words of my groaning.” The Hebrew noun שְׁאָגָה (shÿ’agah) and its related verb שָׁאַג (sha’ag) are sometimes used of a lion’s roar, but they can also describe human groaning (see Job 3:24 and Pss 32:3 and 38:8.

[8:36]  ⁹ tn Heb “the one sinning [against] me.” The verb חָטָא (khata’, “to sin”) forms a contrast with “find” in the previous verse, and so has its basic meaning of “failing to find, miss.” So it is talking about the one who misses wisdom, as opposed to the one who finds it.

[8:36]  ¹⁰ tn The Qal active participle functions verbally here. The word stresses both social and physical harm and violence.

[8:36]  ¹¹ tn Heb “his soul.”

[8:36]  ¹² tn The basic idea of the verb שָׂנֵא (sane’, “to hate”) is that of rejection. Its antonym is also used in the line, “love,” which has the idea of choosing. So not choosing (i.e., hating) wisdom amounts to choosing (i.e., loving) death.