Discovery Box| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 22:22) |
1 tn Or “brothers,” but here the term does not carry a literal familial sense. It refers to the psalmist’s fellow members of the Israelite covenant community (see v. Kir+Heres&tab=notes" ver="">23). |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 27:2) |
4 tn The Hebrew verbal forms are perfects. The translation assumes the psalmist is generalizing here, but another option is to take this as a report of past experience, “when evil men attacked me…they stumbled and fell.” |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 27:6) |
1 sn In vv. Kir+Heres&tab=notes" ver="">1-3 the psalmist generalizes, but here we discover that he is facing a crisis and is under attack from enemies (see vv. Kir+Heres&tab=notes" ver="">11-12). |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 29:2) |
1 tn Heb “ascribe to the |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 29:5) |
3 sn The cedars of the Lebanon forest were well-known in ancient Israel for their immense size. Here they may symbolize the arrogant enemies of God (see Isa 2:12-13). |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 29:9) |
3 tn The verb is used in Joel 1:7 of locusts stripping the leaves from a tree. The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive here carries the descriptive function of the preceding imperfect. See GKC 329 §111.t. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 29:11) |
3 tn Heb “blesses his people with peace.” The Hebrew term שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “peace”) probably refers here to the protection and prosperity experienced by God’s people after the |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 30:7) |
2 tn Heb “you hid your face.” The idiom “hide the face” can mean “ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or, as here, carry the stronger idea of “reject” (see Ps 88:14). |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 33:5) |
1 tn Heb “loves.” The verb “loves” is here metonymic; the |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 33:11) |
1 tn Heb “the thoughts of his heart for generation to generation.” The verb “abides” is supplied in the translation. The |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 34:2) |
1 tn Heb “my soul will boast”; or better, “let my soul boast.” Following the cohortative form in v. Kir+Heres&tab=notes" ver="">1, it is likely that the prefixed verbal form here is jussive. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 36:1) |
4 tn Heb “there is no dread of God before his eyes.” The phrase “dread of God” refers here to a healthy respect for God which recognizes that he will punish evil behavior. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 37:10) |
2 tn Heb “and you will carefully look upon his place, but he will not be [there].” The singular is used here in a representative sense; the typical evildoer is in view. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 37:28) |
1 tn Heb “loves.” The verb “loves” is here metonymic; the |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 37:34) |
3 tn Heb “and he will lift you up.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) is best taken here as a result clause following the imperatives in the preceding lines. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 38:3) |
1 tn Heb “there is no soundness in my flesh from before your anger.” “Anger” here refers metonymically to divine judgment, which is the practical effect of God’s anger at the psalmist’s sin. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 40:8) |
2 tn Heb “your law [is] in the midst of my inner parts.” The “inner parts” are viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s thought life and moral decision making. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 41:3) |
2 tn Heb “all his bed you turn in his illness.” The perfect is used here in a generalizing sense (see v. Kir+Heres&tab=notes" ver="">1) or in a rhetorical manner to emphasize that the healing is as good as done. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 41:7) |
1 tn Heb “together against me they whisper, all those who hate me.” The Hitpael of לָחַשׁ (lakhash) refers here to whispering to one another (see 2 Sam 12:19). |
| (0.13636015625) | (Psa 41:8) |
2 tn Heb “thing of worthlessness.” In Ps 101:3 the phrase refers to evil deeds in general, but here it appears to refer more specifically to the illness that plagues the psalmist. |
