Psalms 5:12

5:12 Certainly ¹  you reward ²  the godly, ³  Lord.

Like a shield you protect ⁴  them ⁵  in your good favor. ⁶ 

Psalms 31:18

31:18 May lying lips be silenced –

lips ⁷  that speak defiantly against the innocent ⁸ 

with arrogance and contempt!

Psalms 37:25

37:25 I was once young, now I am old.

I have never seen a godly man abandoned,

or his children ⁹  forced to search for food. ¹⁰ 

Psalms 58:10

58:10 The godly ¹¹  will rejoice when they see vengeance carried out;

they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

Psalms 64:10

64:10 The godly will rejoice in the Lord

and take shelter in him.

All the morally upright ¹²  will boast. ¹³ 

[5:12]  ¹ tn Or “For.”

[5:12]  ² tn Or “bless.” The imperfect verbal forms here and in the next line highlight how God characteristically rewards and protects the godly.

[5:12]  ³ tn Or “innocent.” The singular form is used here in a collective or representative sense.

[5:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “surround.” In 1 Sam 23:26 the verb describes how Saul and his men hemmed David in as they chased him.

[5:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “him.” The singular form is used here in a collective or representative sense and is thus translated “them.”

[5:12]  ⁶ tn Or “with favor” (cf. NRSV). There is no preposition before the noun in the Hebrew text, nor is there a pronoun attached. “Favor” here stands by metonymy for God’s defensive actions on behalf of the one whom he finds acceptable.

[31:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “the [ones which].”

[31:18]  ⁸ tn Or “godly.”

[37:25]  ¹³ tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”

[37:25]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “or his offspring searching for food.” The expression “search for food” also appears in Lam 1:11, where Jerusalem’s refugees are forced to search for food and to trade their valuable possessions for something to eat.

[58:10]  ¹⁹ tn The singular is representative here, as is the singular from “wicked” in the next line.

[64:10]  ²⁵ tn Heb “upright in heart.”

[64:10]  ²⁶ tn That is, about the Lord’s accomplishments on their behalf.