¹ tn Heb “And I, I shall give my faces.”

³ tn Heb “They made their faces as hard as a rock.”

³ tn Heb “You shall not lift up faces of poor [people] and you shall not honor faces of great.”

¹ tn Heb “from to the faces of the Lord.” The rendering here is based on the use of “my faces” and “your faces” referring to the very “presence” of the Lord in Exod 33:14-15.

³ tn The word “faces” is an adverbial accusative, so the preposition has been supplied in the translation.

⁴ tn Heb “to the atonement lid were the faces of the cherubim.”

¹ tn Heb “and David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces.”

¹ tn Heb “to recognize faces”; KJV, ASV “to have respect of persons”; NLT “to show favoritism.”

³ tn Heb “they have turned [their] backs to me, not [their] faces.”

¹ tn Heb “They each went in the direction of one of his faces.”

¹ tn Or “we all with unveiled faces beholding the glory of the Lord as in a mirror.”

² tn Heb “and they were standing on their feet, with their faces to the house.” An alternative translation of the last clause would be, “with their faces to the main hall.”

³ tn Heb “the faces of the cherubim will be” (“the cherubim” was moved to the preceding clause for smoother English).

¹ sn The Hebrew actually has the “table of faces,” and this has been traditionally rendered “table of shewbread.”

¹ tn Heb “Their southern border was from the end of the Salt Sea, from the tongue that faces to the south.”

¹ tn The imperfect verbal form here expresses the psalmist’s continuing attitude as he faces the crisis at hand.

¹ tn Heb “they have turned [their] backs to me, not [their] faces.” Compare the same idiom in 2:27.

⁴ sn Bowed their faces to the ground. Such respect for angels is common: Dan 7:28; 10:9, 15.

⁵ sn Enchanting folks (Grk “awing faces”) refers to the fact that the speeches of these false teachers are powerful and seductive.

³ tn Heb “all faces gather beauty”; or “all faces gather a glow.” The Hebrew word face="Galaxie Unicode Hebrew">פָּארוּר (face="Scholar">pa’face="Scholar">rur) is found in the OT only here and in Nah 2:11. Its meaning is very uncertain. Some scholars associate it with a root that signifies “glowing”; hence “all faces gather a glow of dread.” Others associate the word with face="Galaxie Unicode Hebrew">פָּרוּר (face="Scholar">parur, “pot”); hence “all faces gather blackness.” Still others take the root to signify “beauty”; hence “all faces gather in their beauty” in the sense of growing pale due to fear. This is the view assumed here.