¹ sn Psalm 150. The Psalter concludes with a resounding call for praise from everything that has breath.

¹ tn Heb “Woe [to] those who call.” See the note at v. 8.

² tn Heb “call in his name,” i.e., “invoke his name.”

⁴ tn Heb “and call the Sabbath a pleasure”; KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “a delight.”

² tn Heb “so that all of them will call on the name of the Lord.”

² tn The verb here is a present imperative, so the call is to an attitude of rejoicing.

² sn This call to “make straight” is probably an allusion to preparation through repentance.

¹ tn The word “people” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation. The construction uses a passive verb without an expressed subject. “To call was begun” can be interpreted to mean that people began to call.

¹ tn Heb “[As for] Sarai your wife, you must not call her name Sarai, for Sarah [will be] her name.”

¹ tn The deictic particle is used here simply to call attention to a place of God’s knowing and choosing.

¹ tn The verb קָרָא (qara’) plus the preposition “to” – “to call to” someone means “to summon” that person.

¹ tn Heb “let him call” or “let him proclaim” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “Let him stand up and speak.”

¹ sn See 1:18. The Lord renews his promise of protection and reiterates his call to Jeremiah.

³ sn This call to “make paths straight” in this context is probably an allusion to preparation through repentance.

¹ sn This call to “make his paths straight” in this context is probably an allusion to preparation through repentance.

¹ sn By your endurance is a call to remain faithful, because trusting in Jesus is the means to life.

¹ tn Heb “will call his name Isaac.” The name means “he laughs,” or perhaps “may he laugh” (see the note on the word “laughed” in v. 17).

³ tn Heb “daughter.” Jacob’s sons call Dinah their daughter, even though she was their sister (see v. 8). This has been translated as “sister” for clarity.

¹ tn The verb is the Hiphil of the root קָהַל (qahal), meaning “to call, assemble”; the related noun is an “assembly.”

¹ tn This probably refers to those who responded to the call for war. They were “survivors” of the Canaanite oppression (see B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 250).