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!

Psalms 31:16

31:16 Smile ⁹  on your servant!

Deliver me because of your faithfulness!

Psalms 80:7

80:7 O God, invincible warrior, ¹⁰  restore us!

Smile on us! ¹¹  Then we will be delivered! ¹² 

Psalms 80:19

80:19 O Lord God, invincible warrior, ¹³  restore us!

Smile on us! ¹⁴  Then we will be delivered! ¹⁵ 

Psalms 13:3

13:3 Look at me! ¹⁶  Answer me, O Lord my God!

Revive me, ¹⁷  or else I will die! ¹⁸ 

Psalms 18:28

18:28 Indeed, ¹⁹  you are my lamp, Lord. ²⁰ 

My God ²¹  illuminates the darkness around me. ²² 

Psalms 19:8

19:8 The Lord’s precepts are fair ²³ 

and make one joyful. ²⁴ 

The Lord’s commands ²⁵  are pure ²⁶ 

and give insight for life. ²⁷ 

Psalms 67:1

Psalm 67 ²⁸ 

For the music director; to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a psalm, a song.

67:1 May God show us his favor ²⁹  and bless us! ³⁰ 

May he smile on us! ³¹  (Selah)

Psalms 77:18

77:18 Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind;

the lightning bolts lit up the world;

the earth trembled and shook. ³² 

Psalms 139:12

139:12 even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, ³³ 

and the night is as bright as ³⁴  day;

darkness and light are the same to you. ³⁵ 

[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.”

[31:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “cause your face to shine.”

[80:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “O God, hosts.” One expects the construct form אֱלֹהֵי before צְבָאוֹת (tsÿva’ot, “hosts”; see Ps 89:9), but יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים (yehvah ’elohim) precedes צְבָאוֹת (tsÿva’ot) in Pss 59:5 and 84:8 as well. See also v. 4 for a similar construction.

[80:7]  ⁸ 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).

[80:7]  ⁹ 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.

[80:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “O Lord, God, hosts.” One expects the construct form אֱלֹהֵי before צְבָאוֹת (tsÿva’ot, “hosts”; see Ps 89:9), but יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים (yehvah ’elohim) precedes צְבָאוֹת (tsÿva’ot) in Pss 59:5 and 84:8 as well. See also vv. 4, 7, 14 for a similar construction.

[80:19]  ⁹ 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).

[80:19]  ¹⁰ 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.

[13:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “see.”

[13:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Give light [to] my eyes.” The Hiphil of אוּר (’ur), when used elsewhere with “eyes” as object, refers to the law of God giving moral enlightenment (Ps 19:8), to God the creator giving literal eyesight to all people (Prov 29:13), and to God giving encouragement to his people (Ezra 9:8). Here the psalmist pictures himself as being on the verge of death. His eyes are falling shut and, if God does not intervene soon, he will “fall asleep” for good.

[13:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “or else I will sleep [in?] the death.” Perhaps the statement is elliptical, “I will sleep [the sleep] of death,” or “I will sleep [with the sleepers in] death.”

[18:28]  ¹⁰ tn Or “for.” The translation assumes that כִּי (ki)is asseverative here.

[18:28]  ¹¹ tn Ps 18:28 reads literally, “you light my lamp, Lord.” 2 Sam 22:29 has, “you are my lamp, Lord.” The Ps 18 reading may preserve two variants, נֵרִי (neriy, “my lamp”) and אוֹרִי (’oriy, “my light”), cf. Ps 27:1. The verb תָּאִיר (ta’ir, “you light”) in Ps 18:28 would, in this case, be a corruption of the latter. See F. M. Cross and D. N. Freedman, Studies in Ancient Yahwistic Poetry (SBLDS), 150, n. 64. The metaphor, which likens the Lord to a lamp or light, pictures him as the psalmist’s source of life. For other examples of “lamp” used in this way, see Job 18:6; 21:17; Prov 13:9; 20:20; 24:20. For other examples of “light” as a symbol for life, see Job 3:20; 33:30; Ps 56:13.

[18:28]  ¹² tn 2 Sam 22:29 repeats the name “Lord.”

[18:28]  ¹³ tn Heb “my darkness.”

[19:8]  ¹¹ tn Or “just.” Perhaps the idea is that they impart a knowledge of what is just and right.

[19:8]  ¹² tn Heb “[they] make happy [the] heart.” Perhaps the point is that they bring a sense of joyful satisfaction to the one who knows and keeps them, for those who obey God’s law are richly rewarded. See v. 11b.

[19:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “command.” The singular here refers to the law as a whole.

[19:8]  ¹⁴ tn Because they reflect God’s character, his commands provide a code of moral and ethical purity.

[19:8]  ¹⁵ tn Heb [they] enlighten [the] eyes.

[67:1]  ¹² sn Psalm 67. The psalmist prays for God’s blessing upon his people and urges the nations to praise him for he is the just ruler of the world.

[67:1]  ¹³ tn Or “have mercy on us.”

[67:1]  ¹⁴ tn The prefixed verbal forms are understood as jussives expressing the psalmist’s prayer. Note the jussive form יָאֵר (ya’er) in the next line.

[67:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “may he cause his face to shine with us.”

[77:18]  ¹³ tn The prefixed verbal form may be taken as a preterite or as an imperfect with past progressive force.

[139:12]  ¹⁴ tn The words “to see” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

[139:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “shines like.”

[139:12]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “like darkness, like light.”