Psalms 5:7

5:7 But as for me, ¹  because of your great faithfulness I will enter your house; ² 

I will bow down toward your holy temple as I worship you. ³ 

Joshua 24:15

24:15 If you have no desire ⁴  to worship ⁵  the Lord, choose today whom you will worship, ⁶  whether it be the gods whom your ancestors ⁷  worshiped ⁸  beyond the Euphrates, ⁹  or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family ¹⁰  will worship ¹¹  the Lord!”

[5:7]  ¹ sn But as for me. By placing the first person pronoun at the beginning of the verse, the psalmist highlights the contrast between the evildoers’ actions and destiny, outlined in the preceding verses, with his own.

[5:7]  ² sn I will enter your house. The psalmist is confident that God will accept him into his presence, in contrast to the evildoers (see v. 5).

[5:7]  ³ tn Heb “in fear [of] you.” The Hebrew noun יִרְאָה (yir’ah, “fear”), when used of fearing God, is sometimes used metonymically for what it ideally produces: “worship, reverence, piety.”

[24:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “if it is bad in your eyes.”

[24:15]  ⁵ tn Or “to serve.”

[24:15]  ⁶ tn Or “will serve.”

[24:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “your fathers.”

[24:15]  ⁸ tn Or “served.”

[24:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “the river,” referring to the Euphrates. This has been specified in the translation for clarity; see v. 3.

[24:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “house.”

[24:15]  ¹¹ tn Or “will serve.”