Psalms 35:27

35:27 May those who desire my vindication shout for joy and rejoice!

May they continually say, ¹  “May the Lord be praised, ²  for he wants his servant to be secure.” ³ 

Psalms 101:3

101:3 I will not even consider doing what is dishonest. ⁴ 

I hate doing evil; ⁵ 

I will have no part of it. ⁶ 

Psalms 128:3

128:3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine ⁷ 

in the inner rooms of your house;

your children ⁸  will be like olive branches,

as they sit all around your table.

Psalms 142:4

142:4 Look to the right and see!

No one cares about me. ⁹ 

I have nowhere to run; ¹⁰ 

no one is concerned about my life. ¹¹ 

[35:27]  ¹ tn The prefixed verbal forms in v. 27a are understood as jussives (see vv. 24b-26).

[35:27]  ² tn The prefixed verbal form is taken as a jussive, “may the Lord be magnified [in praise].” Another option is to take the verb as an imperfect, “the Lord is great.”

[35:27]  ³ tn Heb “the one who desires the peace of his servant.”

[101:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “I will not set before my eyes a thing of worthlessness.”

[101:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “the doing of swerving [deeds] I hate.” The Hebrew term סֵטִים (setim) is probably an alternate spelling of שֵׂטִים (setim), which appears in many medieval Hebrew mss. The form appears to be derived from a verbal root שׂוּט (sut, “to fall away; to swerve”; see Ps 40:4).

[101:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “it [i.e., the doing of evil deeds] does not cling to me.”

[128:3]  ⁷ sn The metaphor of the fruitful vine pictures the wife as fertile; she will give her husband numerous children (see the next line).

[128:3]  ⁸ tn One could translate “sons” (see Ps 127:3 and the note on the word “sons” there), but here the term seems to refer more generally to children of both genders.

[142:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “there is no one who recognizes me.”

[142:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “ a place of refuge perishes from me.”

[142:4]  ¹² tn Heb “there is no one who seeks for the sake of my life.”