Psalms 66:13

66:13 I will enter ¹  your temple with burnt sacrifices;

I will fulfill the vows I made to you,

Psalms 71:16

71:16 I will come and tell about ²  the mighty acts of the sovereign Lord.

I will proclaim your justice – yours alone.

Psalms 73:17

73:17 Then I entered the precincts of God’s temple, ³ 

and understood the destiny of the wicked. ⁴ 

Psalms 5:7

5:7 But as for me, ⁵  because of your great faithfulness I will enter your house; ⁶ 

I will bow down toward your holy temple as I worship you. ⁷ 

Psalms 26:4

26:4 I do not associate ⁸  with deceitful men,

or consort ⁹  with those who are dishonest. ¹⁰ 

Psalms 42:2

42:2 I thirst ¹¹  for God,

for the living God.

I say, ¹²  “When will I be able to go and appear in God’s presence?” ¹³ 

[66:13]  ¹ sn Here the psalmist switches to the singular; he speaks as the representative of the nation.

[71:16]  ² tn Heb “I will come with.”

[73:17]  ³ tn The plural of the term מִקְדָּשׁ (miqdash) probably refers to the temple precincts (see Ps 68:35; Jer 51:51).

[73:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “I discerned their end.” At the temple the psalmist perhaps received an oracle of deliverance announcing his vindication and the demise of the wicked (see Ps 12) or heard songs of confidence (for example, Ps 11), wisdom psalms (for example, Pss 1, 37), and hymns (for example, Ps 112) that describe the eventual downfall of the proud and wealthy.

[5:7]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ 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.”

[26:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “sit.”

[26:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “go.” The psalmist uses the imperfect form of the verb to emphasize that he does not make a practice of associating with such people.

[26:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “[those who] conceal themselves.”

[42:2]  ⁶ tn Or “my soul thirsts.”

[42:2]  ⁷ tn The words “I say” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.

[42:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “When will I go and appear [to] the face of God?” Some emend the Niphal verbal form אֵרָאֶה (’era’eh, “I will appear”) to a Qal אֶרְאֶה (’er’eh, “I will see”; see Gen 33:10), but the Niphal can be retained if one understands ellipsis of אֶת (’et) before “face” (see Exod 34:24; Deut 31:11).