Psalms 59:10-12

59:10 The God who loves me will help me; ¹ 

God will enable me to triumph over ²  my enemies. ³ 

59:11 Do not strike them dead suddenly,

because then my people might forget the lesson. ⁴ 

Use your power to make them homeless vagabonds and then bring them down,

O Lord who shields us! ⁵ 

59:12 They speak sinful words. ⁶ 

So let them be trapped by their own pride

and by the curses and lies they speak!

[59:10]  ¹ tn Heb “the God of my [Qere (marginal reading); the Kethib (consonantal text) has “his”] loyal love will meet me.”

[59:10]  ² tn Heb “will cause me to look upon.”

[59:10]  ³ tn Heb “those who watch me [with evil intent].” See also Pss 5:8; 27:11; 54:5; 56:2.

[59:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “do not kill them, lest my people forget.”

[59:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “make them roam around by your strength and bring them down, O our shield, the Lord.”

[59:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “the sin of their mouth [is] the word of their lips.”