Psalms 50:22

50:22 Carefully consider this, you who reject God! ¹ 

Otherwise I will rip you to shreds ² 

and no one will be able to rescue you.

Psalms 50:2

50:2 From Zion, the most beautiful of all places, ³ 

God comes in splendor. ⁴ 

Psalms 13:1

Psalm 13 ⁵ 

For the music director; a psalm of David.

13:1 How long, Lord, will you continue to ignore me? ⁶ 

How long will you pay no attention to me? ⁷ 

Isaiah 41:2

41:2 Who stirs up this one from the east? ⁸ 

Who ⁹  officially commissions him for service? ¹⁰ 

He hands nations over to him, ¹¹ 

and enables him to subdue ¹²  kings.

He makes them like dust with his sword,

like windblown straw with his bow. ¹³ 

Isaiah 41:15-16

41:15 “Look, I am making you like ¹⁴  a sharp threshing sledge,

new and double-edged. ¹⁵ 

You will thresh the mountains and crush them;

you will make the hills like straw. ¹⁶ 

41:16 You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away;

the wind will scatter them.

You will rejoice in the Lord;

you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

[50:22]  ¹ tn Heb “[you who] forget God.” “Forgetting God” here means forgetting about his commandments and not respecting his moral authority.

[50:22]  ² 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).

[50:2]  ³ tn Heb “the perfection of beauty.”

[50:2]  ⁴ tn Or “shines forth.”

[13:1]  ⁵ sn Psalm 13. The psalmist, who is close to death, desperately pleads for God’s deliverance and affirms his trust in God’s faithfulness.

[13:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “will you forget me continually.”

[13:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “will you hide your face from me.”

[41:2]  ⁸ sn The expression this one from the east refers to the Persian conqueror Cyrus, as later texts indicate (see 44:28-45:6; 46:11; 48:14-16).

[41:2]  ⁹ tn The interrogative particle is understood by ellipsis.

[41:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “[in] righteousness called him to his foot.”

[41:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he [the Lord] places before him [Cyrus] nations.”

[41:2]  ¹² tn The verb יַרְדְּ (yardÿ) is an otherwise unattested Hiphil form from רָדָה (radah, “rule”). But the Hiphil makes no sense with “kings” as object; one must understand an ellipsis and supply “him” (Cyrus) as the object. The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has יוֹרִד (yorid), which appears to be a Hiphil form from יָרַד (yarad, “go down”). Others suggest reading יָרֹד (yarod), a Qal form from רָדַד (radad, “beat down”).

[41:2]  ¹³ sn The point is that they are powerless before Cyrus’ military power and scatter before him.

[41:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “into” (so NIV); ASV “have made thee to be.”

[41:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “owner of two-mouths,” i.e., double-edged.

[41:15]  ¹⁶ sn The mountains and hills symbolize hostile nations that are obstacles to Israel’s restoration.