Psalms 61:4

61:4 I will be a permanent guest in your home; ¹ 

I will find shelter in the protection of your wings. ²  (Selah)

Psalms 91:10

91:10 No harm will overtake ³  you;

no illness ⁴  will come near your home. ⁵ 

Psalms 15:1

Psalm 15 ⁶ 

A psalm of David.

15:1 Lord, who may be a guest in your home? ⁷ 

Who may live on your holy hill? ⁸ 

[61:4]  ¹ tn Heb “I will live as a resident alien in your tent permanently.” The cohortative is understood here as indicating resolve. Another option is to take it as expressing a request, “please let me live” (cf. NASB, NRSV).

[61:4]  ² sn I will find shelter in the protection of your wings. The metaphor compares God to a protective mother bird.

[91:10]  ³ tn Or “confront.”

[91:10]  ⁴ tn For this sense of the Hebrew term נגע see Ps 38:11.

[91:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “your tent.”

[15:1]  ⁵ sn Psalm 15. This psalm describes the character qualities that one must possess to be allowed access to the divine presence.

[15:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “Who may live as a resident alien in your tent?”

[15:1]  ⁷ sn In this context the Lord’s holy hill probably refers to Zion/Jerusalem. See Isa 66:20; Joel 2:1; 3:17; Zech 8:3; Pss 2:6; 43:3; 48:1; 87:1; Dan 9:16.