17:2 Make a just decision on my behalf! 1
Decide what is right! 2
74:23 Do not disregard 3 what your enemies say, 4
or the unceasing shouts of those who defy you. 5
95:9 where your ancestors challenged my authority, 6
and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.
99:3 Let them praise your great and awesome name!
He 7 is holy!
119:82 My eyes grow tired as I wait for your promise to be fulfilled. 8
I say, 9 “When will you comfort me?”
119:110 The wicked lay a trap for me,
but I do not wander from your precepts.
119:114 You are my hiding place and my shield.
I find hope in your word.
1 tn Heb “From before you may my justice come out.” The prefixed verbal form יָצָא (yatsa’) could be taken as an imperfect, but following the imperatives in v. 1, it is better understood as a jussive of prayer.
2 tn Heb “May your eyes look at what is right.” The prefixed verbal form is understood as jussive. (See also the preceding note on the word “behalf.”)
3 tn Or “forget.”
4 tn Heb “the voice of your enemies.”
5 tn Heb “the roar of those who rise up against you, which ascends continually.”
6 tn Heb “where your fathers tested me.”
7 tn The pronoun refers to the
8 tn Heb “my eyes fail for your word.” The psalmist has intently kept his eyes open, looking for God to intervene, but now his eyes are watery and bloodshot, impairing his vision. See Ps 69:3.
9 tn Heb “saying.”