Psalms 68:27

68:27 There is little Benjamin, their ruler, ¹ 

and the princes of Judah in their robes, ² 

along with the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.

Psalms 82:7

82:7 Yet you will die like mortals; ³ 

you will fall like all the other rulers.” ⁴ 

Psalms 105:22

105:22 giving him authority to imprison his officials ⁵ 

and to teach his advisers. ⁶ 

Psalms 119:161

שׂ/שׁ (Sin/Shin)

119:161 Rulers pursue me for no reason,

yet I am more afraid of disobeying your instructions. ⁷ 

Psalms 119:23

119:23 Though rulers plot and slander me, ⁸ 

your servant meditates on your statutes.

Psalms 148:11

148:11 you kings of the earth and all you nations,

you princes and all you leaders ⁹  on the earth,

Psalms 45:16

45:16 Your ¹⁰  sons will carry ¹¹  on the dynasty of your ancestors; ¹² 

you will make them princes throughout the land.

[68:27]  ¹ sn Little Benjamin, their ruler. This may allude to the fact that Israel’s first king, Saul, was from the tribe of Benjamin.

[68:27]  ² tc The MT reads רִגְמָתָם (rigmatam), which many derive from רָגַם (ragam, “to kill by stoning”) and translates, “[in] their heaps,” that is, in large numbers.

[82:7]  ³ tn Heb “men.” The point in the context is mortality, however, not maleness.

[82:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “like one of the rulers.” The comparison does not necessarily imply that they are not rulers. The expression “like one of” can sometimes mean “as one of” (Gen 49:16; Obad 11) or “as any other of” (Judg 16:7, 11).

[105:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “to bind his officials by his will.”

[105:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “and his elders he taught wisdom.”

[119:161]  ⁷ tn Heb “and because of your instructions my heart trembles.” The psalmist’s healthy “fear” of the consequences of violating God’s instructions motivates him to obey them. See v. 120.

[119:23]  ⁹ tn Heb “though rulers sit, about me they talk together.” (For another example of the Niphal of דָּבַר (davar) used with a suffixed form of the preposition ב, see Ezek 33:30.)

[148:11]  ¹¹ tn Or “judges.”

[45:16]  ¹³ tn The pronoun is second masculine singular, indicating the king is being addressed from this point to the end of the psalm.

[45:16]  ¹⁴ tn The prefixed verbal form could be taken as jussive and the statement interpreted as a prayer, “May your sons carry on the dynasty of your ancestors!” The next line could then be taken as a relative clause, “[your sons] whom you will make princes throughout the land.”

[45:16]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “in place of your fathers will be your sons.”