Psalms 34:21

34:21 Evil people self-destruct; ¹ 

those who hate the godly are punished. ² 

Psalms 37:19

37:19 They will not be ashamed when hard times come; ³ 

when famine comes they will have enough to eat. ⁴ 

Psalms 91:10

91:10 No harm will overtake ⁵  you;

no illness ⁶  will come near your home. ⁷ 

Psalms 109:5

109:5 They repay me evil for good, ⁸ 

and hate for love.

Psalms 112:7

112:7 He does not fear bad news.

He ⁹  is confident; he trusts ¹⁰  in the Lord.

[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.

[37:19]  ³ tn Heb “in a time of trouble.”

[37:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “in days of famine they will be satisfied.”

[91:10]  ⁵ tn Or “confront.”

[91:10]  ⁶ tn For this sense of the Hebrew term נגע see Ps 38:11.

[91:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “your tent.”

[109:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they set upon me evil in place of good.”

[112:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “his heart,” viewed here as the seat of the volition and emotions (see Ps 108:1).

[112:7]  ¹⁰ tn The passive participle בָּטֻחַ [בָּטוּחַ] (batuakh [batuakh]) expresses a state that results from the subject’s action. See Isa 26:3.