Psalms 7:17

7:17 I will thank the Lord for ¹  his justice;

I will sing praises to the sovereign Lord! ² 

Psalms 9:2

9:2 I will be happy and rejoice in you!

I will sing praises to you, O sovereign One! ³ 

Psalms 57:2

57:2 I cry out for help to the sovereign God, ⁴ 

to the God who vindicates ⁵  me.

Psalms 77:10

77:10 Then I said, “I am sickened by the thought

that the sovereign One ⁶  might become inactive. ⁷ 

Psalms 78:17

78:17 Yet they continued to sin against him,

and rebelled against the sovereign One ⁸  in the desert.

Psalms 78:35

78:35 They remembered that God was their protector, ⁹ 

and that the sovereign God was their deliverer. ¹⁰ 

Psalms 78:56

78:56 Yet they challenged and defied ¹¹  the sovereign God, ¹² 

and did not obey ¹³  his commands. ¹⁴ 

Psalms 82:6

82:6 I thought, ¹⁵  ‘You are gods;

all of you are sons of the Most High.’ ¹⁶ 

Psalms 89:27

89:27 I will appoint him to be my firstborn son, ¹⁷ 

the most exalted of the earth’s kings.

Psalms 91:9

91:9 For you have taken refuge in the Lord,

my shelter, the sovereign One. ¹⁸ 

Psalms 107:11

107:11 because they had rebelled against God’s commands, ¹⁹ 

and rejected the instructions of the sovereign king. ²⁰ 

[7:17]  ¹ tn Heb “according to.”

[7:17]  ² tn Heb “[to] the name of the Lord Most High.” God’s “name” refers metonymically to his divine characteristics as suggested by his name, in this case the compound “Lord Most High.” The divine title “Most High” (עֶלְיוֹן, ’elyon) pictures God as the exalted ruler of the universe who vindicates the innocent and judges the wicked. See especially Ps 47:2.

[9:2]  ³ tn Heb “[to] your name, O Most High.” God’s “name” refers metonymically to his divine characteristics as suggested by his name, in this case “Most High.” This divine title (עֶלְיוֹן, ’elyo/) pictures God as the exalted ruler of the universe who vindicates the innocent and judges the wicked. See especially Ps 47:2.

[57:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “to God Most High.” The divine title “Most High” (עֶלְיוֹן, ’elyon) pictures God as the exalted ruler of the universe who vindicates the innocent and judges the wicked. See especially Ps 47:2.

[57:2]  ⁶ tn Or “avenges in favor of.”

[77:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “Most High.” This divine title (עֶלְיוֹן, ’elyon) pictures God as the exalted ruler of the universe who vindicates the innocent and judges the wicked. See especially Pss 7:17; 9:2; 18:13; 21:7; 47:2.

[77:10]  ⁸ tc Heb “And I said, ‘This is my wounding, the changing of the right hand of the Most High.’” The form חַלּוֹתִי (khallotiy) appears to be a Qal infinitive construct (with a first person singular pronominal suffix) from the verbal root חָלַל (khalal, “to pierce; to wound”). The present translation assumes an emendation to חֲלוֹתִי (khalotiy), a Qal infinitive construct (with a first person singular pronominal suffix) from the verbal root חָלָה (khalah, “be sick, weak”). The form שְׁנוֹת (shÿnot) is understood as a Qal infinitive construct from שָׁנָה (shanah, “to change”) rather than a plural noun form, “years” (see v. 5). “Right hand” here symbolizes by metonymy God’s power and activity. The psalmist observes that his real problem is theological in nature. His experience suggests that the sovereign Lord has abandoned him and become inactive. However, this goes against the grain of his most cherished beliefs.

[78:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “rebelling [against] the Most High.”

[78:35]  ¹¹ tn Heb “my high rocky summit.”

[78:35]  ¹² tn Heb “and [that] God Most High [was] their redeemer.”

[78:56]  ¹³ tn Or “tested and rebelled against.”

[78:56]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “God, the Most High.”

[78:56]  ¹⁵ tn Or “keep.”

[78:56]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “his testimonies” (see Ps 25:10).

[82:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “said.”

[82:6]  ¹⁶ sn Normally in the OT the title Most High belongs to the God of Israel, but in this context, where the mythological overtones are so strong, it probably refers to the Canaanite high god El (see v. 1, as well as Isa 14:13).

[89:27]  ¹⁷ sn The firstborn son typically had special status and received special privileges.

[91:9]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “for you, the Lord, my shelter, the Most High, you have made your dwelling place.”

[107:11]  ²¹ tn Heb “the words of God.”

[107:11]  ²² tn Heb “the counsel of the Most High.”