Psalms 22:31

22:31 They will come and tell about his saving deeds; ¹ 

they will tell a future generation what he has accomplished. ² 

Psalms 37:19

37:19 They will not be ashamed when hard times come; ³ 

when famine comes they will have enough to eat. ⁴ 

Psalms 50:1

Psalm 50 ⁵ 

A psalm by Asaph.

50:1 El, God, the Lord ⁶  speaks,

and summons the earth to come from the east and west. ⁷ 

Psalms 66:16

66:16 Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God! ⁸ 

I will declare what he has done for me.

Psalms 71:16

71:16 I will come and tell about ⁹  the mighty acts of the sovereign Lord.

I will proclaim your justice – yours alone.

Psalms 80:14

80:14 O God, invincible warrior, ¹⁰  come back!

Look down from heaven and take notice!

Take care of this vine,

Psalms 86:9

86:9 All the nations, whom you created,

will come and worship you, ¹¹  O Lord.

They will honor your name.

Psalms 95:6

95:6 Come! Let’s bow down and worship! ¹² 

Let’s kneel before the Lord, our creator!

Psalms 119:176

119:176 I have wandered off like a lost sheep. ¹³ 

Come looking for your servant,

for I do not forget your commands.

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¹ tn Heb “his righteousness.” Here the noun צִדָקָה (tsidaqah) refers to the Lord’s saving deeds whereby he vindicates the oppressed.

² tn Heb “to a people [to be] born that he has acted.” The words “they will tell” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³ tn Heb “in a time of trouble.”

⁴ tn Heb “in days of famine they will be satisfied.”

⁵ sn Psalm 50. This psalm takes the form of a covenant lawsuit in which the Lord comes to confront his people in a formal manner (as in Isa 1:2-20). The Lord emphasizes that he places priority on obedience and genuine worship, not empty ritual.

⁶ sn Israel’s God is here identified with three names: El (אֵל [’el], or “God”), Elohim (אֱלֹהִים [’elohim], or “God”), and Yahweh (יְהוָה [yÿhvah] or “the Lord”). There is an obvious allusion here to Josh 22:22, the only other passage where these three names appear in succession. In that passage the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh declare, “El, God, the Lord! El, God, the Lord! He knows the truth! Israel must also know! If we have rebelled or disobeyed the Lord, don’t spare us today!” In that context the other tribes had accused the trans-Jordanian tribes of breaking God’s covenant by worshiping idols. The trans-Jordanian tribes appealed to “El, God, the Lord” as their witness that they were innocent of the charges brought against them. Ironically here in Ps 50 “El, God, the Lord” accuses his sinful covenant people of violating the covenant and warns that he will not spare them if they persist in their rebellion.

⁷ tn Heb “and calls [the] earth from the sunrise to its going.”

⁸ tn Heb “all of the fearers of God.”

⁹ tn Heb “I will come with.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “O God, hosts.” One expects the construct form אֱלֹהֵי before צְבָאוֹת (tsÿva’ot, “hosts”; see Ps 89:9), but יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים (yehvah ’elohim) precedes צְבָאוֹת (tsÿva’ot) in Pss 59:5 and 84:8 as well. See also vv. 4, 7 for a similar construction.

¹¹ tn Or “bow down before you.”

¹² tn Heb “kneel down.”

¹³ tn Heb “I stray like a lost sheep.” It is possible that the point of the metaphor is vulnerability: The psalmist, who is threatened by his enemies, feels as vulnerable as a straying, lost sheep. This would not suggest, however, that he has wandered from God’s path (see the second half of the verse, as well as v. 110).