Psalms 36:11

36:11 Do not let arrogant men overtake me,

or let evil men make me homeless! ¹ 

Psalms 54:3

54:3 For foreigners ²  attack me; ³ 

ruthless men, who do not respect God, seek my life. ⁴  (Selah)

Psalms 119:51

119:51 Arrogant people do nothing but scoff at me. ⁵ 

Yet I do not turn aside from your law.

Psalms 119:69

119:69 Arrogant people smear my reputation with lies, ⁶ 

but I observe your precepts with all my heart.

Psalms 119:85

119:85 The arrogant dig pits to trap me, ⁷ 

which violates your law. ⁸ 

Psalms 140:5

140:5 Proud men hide a snare for me;

evil men ⁹  spread a net by the path;

they set traps for me. (Selah)

Psalms 140:2

140:2 who plan ways to harm me. ¹⁰ 

All day long they stir up conflict. ¹¹ 

Psalms 15:1

Psalm 15 ¹² 

A psalm of David.

15:1 Lord, who may be a guest in your home? ¹³ 

Who may live on your holy hill? ¹⁴ 

[36:11]  ¹ tn Heb “let not a foot of pride come to me, and let not the hand of the evil ones cause me to wander as a fugitive.”

[54:3]  ² tc Many medieval Hebrew mss read זֵדִים (zedim, “proud ones”) rather than זָרִים (zarim, “foreigners”). (No matter which reading one chooses as original, dalet-resh confusion accounts for the existence of the variant.) The term זֵדִים (“proud ones”) occurs in parallelism with עָרִיצִים (’aritsim, “violent ones”) in Ps 86:14 and Isa 13:11. However, זָרִים (zarim, “foreigners”) is parallel to עָרִיצִים (’aritsim, “violent ones”) in Isa 25:5; 29:5; Ezek 28:7; 31:12.

[54:3]  ³ tn Heb “rise against me.”

[54:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “and ruthless ones seek my life, they do not set God in front of them.”

[119:51]  ⁵ tn Heb “scoff at me to excess.”

[119:69]  ⁶ tn Heb “smear over me a lie.”

[119:85]  ⁷ tn Heb “for me.”

[119:85]  ⁸ tn Heb “which [is] not according to your law.”

[140:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “and ropes,” but many prefer to revocalize the noun as a participle (חֹבְלִים, khovÿlim) from the verb חָבַל (khaval, “act corruptly”).

[140:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they devise wicked [plans] in [their] mind.”

[140:2]  ¹¹ tc Heb “they attack [for] war.” Some revocalize the verb (which is a Qal imperfect from גּוּר, gur, “to attack”) as יְגָרוּ (yÿgaru), a Piel imperfect from גָרָה (garah, “stir up strife”). This is followed in the present translation.

[15:1]  ¹² sn Psalm 15. This psalm describes the character qualities that one must possess to be allowed access to the divine presence.

[15:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “Who may live as a resident alien in your tent?”

[15:1]  ¹⁴ sn In this context the Lord’s holy hill probably refers to Zion/Jerusalem. See Isa 66:20; Joel 2:1; 3:17; Zech 8:3; Pss 2:6; 43:3; 48:1; 87:1; Dan 9:16.