Psalms 36:7

36:7 How precious ¹  is your loyal love, O God!

The human race finds shelter under your wings. ² 

Psalms 50:22

50:22 Carefully consider this, you who reject God! ³ 

Otherwise I will rip you to shreds ⁴ 

and no one will be able to rescue you.

Psalms 60:12

60:12 By God’s power we will conquer; ⁵ 

he will trample down ⁶  our enemies.

Psalms 68:3

68:3 But the godly ⁷  are happy;

they rejoice before God

and are overcome with joy. ⁸ 

Psalms 69:6

69:6 Let none who rely on you be disgraced because of me,

O sovereign Lord and king! ⁹ 

Let none who seek you be ashamed because of me,

O God of Israel!

Psalms 69:29

69:29 I am oppressed and suffering!

O God, deliver and protect me! ¹⁰ 

Psalms 73:17

73:17 Then I entered the precincts of God’s temple, ¹¹ 

and understood the destiny of the wicked. ¹² 

Psalms 74:8

74:8 They say to themselves, ¹³ 

“We will oppress all of them.” ¹⁴ 

They burn down all the places where people worship God in the land. ¹⁵ 

Psalms 78:31

78:31 when the anger of God flared up against them.

He killed some of the strongest of them;

he brought the young men of Israel to their knees.

Psalms 78:56

78:56 Yet they challenged and defied ¹⁶  the sovereign God, ¹⁷ 

and did not obey ¹⁸  his commands. ¹⁹ 

Psalms 92:13

92:13 Planted in the Lord’s house,

they grow in the courts of our God.

Psalms 106:14

106:14 In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving ²⁰  for meat; ²¹ 

they challenged God ²²  in the desert.

Psalms 108:13

108:13 By God’s power we will conquer; ²³ 

he will trample down ²⁴  our enemies.

[36:7]  ¹ tn Or “valuable.”

[36:7]  ² tn Heb “and the sons of man in the shadow of your wings find shelter.” The preservation of physical life is in view, as the next verse makes clear.

[50:22]  ³ tn Heb “[you who] forget God.” “Forgetting God” here means forgetting about his commandments and not respecting his moral authority.

[50:22]  ⁴ sn Elsewhere in the psalms this verb is used (within a metaphorical framework) of a lion tearing its prey (see Pss 7:2; 17:12; 22:13).

[60:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “in God we will accomplish strength.” The statement refers here to military success (see Num 24:18; 1 Sam 14:48; Pss 108:13; 118:15-16).

[60:12]  ⁶ sn Trample down. On this expression see Ps 44:5.

[68:3]  ⁷ tn By placing the subject first the psalmist highlights the contrast between God’s ecstatic people and his defeated enemies (vv. 1-2).

[68:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “and they are happy with joy” (cf. NEB). Some translate the prefixed verbal forms of v. 3 as jussives, “Let the godly be happy, let them rejoice before God, and let them be happy with joy!” (Cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV; note the call to praise in v. 4.)

[69:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “O Master, Lord of hosts.” Both titles draw attention to God’s sovereign position.

[69:29]  ¹¹ tn Heb “your deliverance, O God, may it protect me.”

[73:17]  ¹³ tn The plural of the term מִקְדָּשׁ (miqdash) probably refers to the temple precincts (see Ps 68:35; Jer 51:51).

[73:17]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “I discerned their end.” At the temple the psalmist perhaps received an oracle of deliverance announcing his vindication and the demise of the wicked (see Ps 12) or heard songs of confidence (for example, Ps 11), wisdom psalms (for example, Pss 1, 37), and hymns (for example, Ps 112) that describe the eventual downfall of the proud and wealthy.

[74:8]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “in their heart.”

[74:8]  ¹⁶ tc Heb “[?] altogether.” The Hebrew form נִינָם (ninam) is problematic. It could be understood as the noun נִין (nin, “offspring”) but the statement “their offspring altogether” would make no sense here. C. A. Briggs and E. G. Briggs (Psalms [ICC], 2:159) emends יָחַד (yakhad, “altogether”) to יָחִיד (yakhid, “alone”) and translate “let their offspring be solitary” (i.e., exiled). Another option is to understand the form as a Qal imperfect first common plural from יָנָה (yanah, “to oppress”) with a third masculine plural pronominal suffix, “we will oppress them.” However, this verb, when used in the finite form, always appears in the Hiphil. Therefore, it is preferable to emend the form to the Hiphil נוֹנֵם (nonem, “we will oppress them”).

[74:8]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “they burn down all the meeting places of God in the land.”

[78:56]  ¹⁷ tn Or “tested and rebelled against.”

[78:56]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “God, the Most High.”

[78:56]  ¹⁹ tn Or “keep.”

[78:56]  ²⁰ tn Heb “his testimonies” (see Ps 25:10).

[106:14]  ¹⁹ sn They had an insatiable craving. This is described in Num 11:4-35.

[106:14]  ²⁰ tn Heb “they craved [with] a craving.”

[106:14]  ²¹ tn Heb “they tested God.”

[108:13]  ²¹ tn Heb “in God we will accomplish strength.” The statement refers here to military success (see Num 24:18; 1 Sam 14:48; Pss 60:12; 118:16-16).

[108:13]  ²² sn On the expression trample down our enemies see Ps 44:5.