Psalms 38:8

38:8 I am numb with pain and severely battered; ¹ 

I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel. ² 

Psalms 92:5

92:5 How great are your works, O Lord!

Your plans are very intricate! ³ 

Psalms 109:30

109:30 I will thank the Lord profusely, ⁴ 

in the middle of a crowd ⁵  I will praise him,

Psalms 119:8

119:8 I will keep your statutes.

Do not completely abandon me! ⁶ 

Psalms 119:51

119:51 Arrogant people do nothing but scoff at me. ⁷ 

Yet I do not turn aside from your law.

Psalms 119:96

119:96 I realize that everything has its limits,

but your commands are beyond full comprehension. ⁸ 

Psalms 145:3

145:3 The Lord is great and certainly worthy of praise!

No one can fathom his greatness! ⁹ 

[38:8]  ¹ tn Heb “I am numb and crushed to excess.”

[38:8]  ² tn Heb “I roar because of the moaning of my heart.”

[92:5]  ³ tn Heb “very deep [are] your thoughts.” God’s “thoughts” refer here to his moral design of the world, as outlined in vv. 6-15.

[109:30]  ⁵ tn Heb “I will thank the Lord very much with my mouth.”

[109:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “many.”

[119:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “do not abandon me to excess.” For other uses of the phrase עַד מְאֹד (’ad mÿ’od, “to excess”), see Ps 38:6, 8.

[119:51]  ⁹ tn Heb “scoff at me to excess.”

[119:96]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to every perfection I have seen an end, your command is very wide.” God’s law is beyond full comprehension, which is why the psalmist continually studies it (vv. 95, 97).

[145:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “and concerning his greatness there is no searching.”