118:25 Please Lord, deliver!
Please Lord, grant us success! 1
118:26 May the one who comes in the name of the Lord 2 be blessed!
We will pronounce blessings on you 3 in the Lord’s temple. 4
1 sn A petition for deliverance and success seems odd in a psalm thanking God for deliverance, but it is not unique (see Ps 9:19-20). The people ask God to continue to intervene for them as he has for the psalmist.
2 sn The people refer here to the psalmist, who enters the
3 tn The pronominal suffix is second masculine plural, but the final mem (ם) is probably dittographic (note the mem [מ] at the beginning of the following form) or enclitic, in which case the suffix may be taken as second masculine singular, referring to the psalmist.
4 tn Heb “from the house of the