Psalms 7:7

7:7 The countries are assembled all around you; ¹ 

take once more your rightful place over them! ² 

Psalms 75:5

75:5 Do not be so certain you have won! ³ 

Do not speak with your head held so high! ⁴ 

Psalms 68:18

68:18 You ascend on high, ⁵ 

you have taken many captives. ⁶ 

You receive tribute ⁷  from ⁸  men,

including even sinful rebels.

Indeed the Lord God lives there! ⁹ 

[7:7]  ¹ tn Heb “and the assembly of the peoples surrounds you.” Some understand the prefixed verbal form as a jussive, “may the assembly of the peoples surround you.”

[7:7]  ² tn Heb “over it (the feminine suffix refers back to the feminine noun “assembly” in the preceding line) on high return.” Some emend שׁוּבָה (shuvah, “return”) to שֵׁבָה (shevah, “sit [in judgment]”) because they find the implication of “return” problematic. But the psalmist does not mean to imply that God has abandoned his royal throne and needs to regain it. Rather he simply urges God, as sovereign king of the world, to once more occupy his royal seat of judgment and execute judgment, as the OT pictures God doing periodically.

[75:5]  ³ tn Heb “do not lift up on high your horn.”

[75:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “[do not] speak with unrestrained neck.” The negative particle is understood in this line by ellipsis (note the preceding line).

[68:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “to the elevated place”; or “on high.” This probably refers to the Lord’s throne on Mount Zion.

[68:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “you have taken captives captive.”

[68:18]  ⁷ tn Or “gifts.”

[68:18]  ⁸ tn Or “among.”

[68:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “so that the Lord God might live [there].” Many take the infinitive construct with -לְ (lamed) as indicating purpose here, but it is unclear how the offering of tribute enables the Lord to live in Zion. This may be an occurrence of the relatively rare emphatic lamed (see HALOT 510-11 s.v. II לְ, though this text is not listed as an example there). If so, the statement corresponds nicely to the final line of v. 16, which also affirms emphatically that the Lord lives in Zion.