Psalms 78:60

78:60 He abandoned ¹  the sanctuary at Shiloh,

the tent where he lived among men.

Psalms 71:11

71:11 They say, ²  “God has abandoned him.

Run and seize him, for there is no one who will rescue him!”

Psalms 78:48

78:48 He rained hail down on their cattle, ³ 

and hurled lightning bolts down on their livestock. ⁴ 

Psalms 9:10

9:10 Your loyal followers trust in you, ⁵ 

for you, Lord, do not abandon those who seek your help. ⁶ 

Psalms 18:22

18:22 For I am aware of all his regulations, ⁷ 

and I do not reject his rules. ⁸ 

Psalms 27:10

27:10 Even if my father and mother abandoned me, ⁹ 

the Lord would take me in. ¹⁰ 

Psalms 37:25

37:25 I was once young, now I am old.

I have never seen a godly man abandoned,

or his children ¹¹  forced to search for food. ¹² 

Psalms 77:9

77:9 Has God forgotten to be merciful?

Has his anger stifled his compassion?”

Psalms 88:5

88:5 adrift ¹³  among the dead,

like corpses lying in the grave,

whom you remember no more,

and who are cut off from your power. ¹⁴ 

Psalms 22:1

Psalm 22 ¹⁵ 

For the music director; according to the tune “Morning Doe;” ¹⁶  a psalm of David.

22:1 My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? ¹⁷ 

I groan in prayer, but help seems far away. ¹⁸ 

[78:60]  ¹ tn Or “rejected.”

[71:11]  ² tn Heb “saying.”

[78:48]  ³ tn Heb “and he turned over to the hail their cattle.”

[78:48]  ⁴ tn Heb “and their livestock to the flames.” “Flames” here refer to the lightning bolts that accompanied the storm.

[9:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the ones who know your name trust in you.” The construction vav (ו) conjunctive + imperfect at the beginning of the verse expresses another consequence of the statement made in v. 8. “To know” the Lord’s “name” means to be his follower, recognizing his authority and maintaining loyalty to him. See Ps 91:14, where “knowing” the Lord’s “name” is associated with loving him.

[9:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “the ones who seek you.”

[18:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “for all his regulations [are] before me.” The Hebrew term מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim, “regulations”) refers to God’s covenantal requirements, especially those which the king is responsible to follow (cf. Deut 17:18-20). See also Pss 19:9 (cf. vv. 7-8); 89:30; 147:20 (cf. v. 19), as well as the numerous uses of the term in Ps 119.

[18:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “and his rules I do not turn aside from me.” 2 Sam 22:23 reads, “and his rules, I do not turn aside from it.” The prefixed verbal form is probably an imperfect; the psalmist here generalizes about his loyalty to God’s commands. The Lord’s “rules” are the stipulations of the covenant which the king was responsible to obey (see Ps 89:31; cf. v. 30 and Deut 17:18-20).

[27:10]  ⁶ tn Or “though my father and mother have abandoned me.”

[27:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “gather me in”; or “receive me.”

[37:25]  ⁷ tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”

[37:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “or his offspring searching for food.” The expression “search for food” also appears in Lam 1:11, where Jerusalem’s refugees are forced to search for food and to trade their valuable possessions for something to eat.

[88:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “set free.”

[88:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “from your hand.”

[22:1]  ⁹ sn Psalm 22. The psalmist cries out to the Lord for deliverance from his dangerous enemies, who have surrounded him and threaten his life. Confident that the Lord will intervene, he then vows to thank the Lord publicly for his help and anticipates a time when all people will recognize the Lord’s greatness and worship him.

[22:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “according to the doe of the dawn.” Apparently this refers to a particular musical tune or style.

[22:1]  ¹¹ sn From the psalmist’s perspective it seems that God has abandoned him, for he fails to answer his cry for help (vv. 1b-2).

[22:1]  ¹² tn Heb “far from my deliverance [are] the words of my groaning.” The Hebrew noun שְׁאָגָה (shÿ’agah) and its related verb שָׁאַג (sha’ag) are sometimes used of a lion’s roar, but they can also describe human groaning (see Job 3:24 and Pss 32:3 and 38:8.