Discovery Box| (0.4002736056338) | (Psa 18:44) |
1 tn Heb “at a report of an ear they submit to me.” The report of the psalmist’s exploits is so impressive that those who hear it submit to his rulership without putting up a fight. |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Psa 27:5) |
6 tn Heb “on a rocky summit he lifts me up.” The |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Psa 35:23) |
1 sn Though he is confident that the Lord is aware of his situation (see v. 22a), the psalmist compares the Lord’s inactivity to sleep and urges him to wake up. |
| (0.4002736056338) | (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. |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Psa 63:11) |
3 tn The Niphal of this verb occurs only here and in Gen 8:2, where it is used of God “stopping” or “damming up” the great deep as he brought the flood to an end. |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Psa 74:4) |
3 tn Heb “they set up their banners [as] banners.” The Hebrew noun אוֹת (’ot, “sign”) here refers to the enemy army’s battle flags and banners (see Num 2:12). |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Psa 75:10) |
2 tn Heb “and all the horns of the wicked I will cut off, the horns of the godly will be lifted up.” The imagery of the wild ox’s horn is once more utilized (see vv. 4-5). |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Psa 89:2) |
2 sn You set up your faithfulness. This may allude to the Lord’s heavenly throne, which symbolizes his just rule and from which the Lord decrees his unconditional promises (see vv. 8, 14). |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Psa 102:8) |
1 tn Heb “by me they swear.” When the psalmist’s enemies call judgment down on others, they hold the psalmist up as a prime example of what they desire their enemies to become. |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Psa 102:11) |
1 tn Heb “my days [are] like an extended [or “lengthening”] shadow,” that is, like a late afternoon shadow made by the descending sun that will soon be swallowed up by complete darkness. |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Psa 102:13) |
1 tn The imperfect verbal forms are understood as expressing the psalmist’s confidence in God’s intervention. Another option is to take them as expressing the psalmist’s request or wish, “You, rise up and have compassion!” |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Psa 109:23) |
1 tn Heb “like a shadow when it is extended I go.” He is like a late afternoon shadow made by the descending sun that will soon be swallowed up by complete darkness. See Ps 102:11. |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Psa 116:13) |
1 tn Heb “a cup of deliverance I will lift up.” Perhaps this alludes to a drink offering the psalmist will present as he thanks the |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Psa 144:4) |
2 tn Heb “his days [are] like a shadow that passes away,” that is, like a late afternoon shadow made by the descending sun that will soon be swallowed up by complete darkness. See Ps 102:11. |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Pro 2:7) |
5 tn The word can be taken as in apposition explaining the subject of the first colon – the |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Pro 13:18) |
2 tn The phrase “ends up in” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is implied by the parallelism; it is supplied in the translation for the sake of smoothness. |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Pro 14:29) |
2 sn The participle “exalts” (מֵרִים, merim) means that this person brings folly to a full measure, lifts it up, brings it to the full notice of everybody. |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Pro 16:27) |
3 tn Heb “on his lips” (so NAB) The term “lips” is a metonymy of cause. To say that “evil” is on his lips means that he talks about the evil he has dug up. |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Pro 18:19) |
5 sn The proverb is talking about changing a friend or a relative into an enemy by abuse or strife – the bars go up, as it were. And the “walls” that are erected are not easily torn down. |
| (0.4002736056338) | (Pro 23:34) |
2 sn The point of these similes is to compare being drunk with being seasick. One who tries to sleep when at sea, or even worse, when up on the ropes of the mast, will be tossed back and forth. |
