Psalms 76:4

76:4 You shine brightly and reveal your majesty,

as you descend from the hills where you killed your prey. ¹ 

Psalms 80:3

80:3 O God, restore us!

Smile on us! ²  Then we will be delivered! ³ 

Psalms 97:4

97:4 His lightning bolts light up the world;

the earth sees and trembles.

Psalms 105:39

105:39 He spread out a cloud for a cover, ⁴ 

and provided a fire to light up the night.

Psalms 119:130

119:130 Your instructions are a doorway through which light shines. ⁵ 

They give ⁶  insight to the untrained. ⁷ 

Psalms 119:135

119:135 Smile ⁸  on your servant!

Teach me your statutes!

[76:4]  ¹ tn Heb “radiant [are] you, majestic from the hills of prey.” God is depicted as a victorious king and as a lion that has killed its victims.

[80:3]  ² tn The idiom “cause your face to shine” probably refers to a smile (see Eccl 8:1), which in turn suggests favor and blessing (see Num 6:25; Pss 4:6; 31:16; 44:3; 67:1; 89:15; Dan 9:17).

[80:3]  ³ tn Heb “cause your face to shine in order that we may be delivered.” After the imperative, the cohortative with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose/result.

[105:39]  ³ tn Or “curtain.”

[119:130]  ⁴ tn Heb “the doorway of your words gives light.” God’s “words” refer here to the instructions in his law (see vv. 9, 57).

[119:130]  ⁵ tn Heb “it [i.e., the doorway] gives.”

[119:130]  ⁶ tn Or “the [morally] naive,” that is, the one who is young and still in the process of learning right from wrong and distinguishing wisdom from folly. See Pss 19:7; 116:6.

[119:135]  ⁵ tn Heb “cause your face to shine.”