By David.
25:1 O Lord, I come before you in prayer. 2
25:22 O God, rescue 3 Israel
from all their distress! 4
38:22 Hurry and help me, 5 O Lord, my deliverer!
102:12 But you, O Lord, rule forever, 6
and your reputation endures. 7
119:12 You deserve praise, 8 O Lord!
Teach me your statutes!
119:52 I remember your ancient regulations, 9
O Lord, and console myself. 10
122:2 Our feet are 11 standing
inside your gates, O Jerusalem.
131:3 O Israel, hope in the Lord
now and forevermore!
146:1 Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, O my soul!
1 sn Psalm 25. The psalmist asks for divine protection, guidance and forgiveness as he affirms his loyalty to and trust in the Lord. This psalm is an acrostic; every verse begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet, except for v. 18, which, like v. 19, begins with ר (resh) instead of the expected ק (qof). The final verse, which begins with פ (pe), stands outside the acrostic scheme.
2 tn Heb “to you, O
3 tn Or “redeem.”
4 tn Heb “his distresses.”
sn O God, rescue Israel from all their distress. It is possible that the psalmist speaks on behalf of the nation throughout this entire psalm. Another option is that v. 22 is a later addition to the psalm which applies an original individual lament to the covenant community. If so, it may reflect an exilic setting.
5 tn Heb “hurry to my help.” See Ps 22:19.
6 tn Heb “sit” (i.e., sit enthroned, see Ps 9:7). The imperfect verbal form highlights the generalization.
7 tn Heb “and your remembrance [is] for a generation and a generation.”
8 tn Heb “[are] blessed.”
9 tn Heb “I remember your regulations from of old.” The prepositional phrase “from of old” apparently modifies “your regulations,” alluding to the fact that God revealed them to Israel in the distant past. Another option is to understand the prepositional phrase as modifying the verb, in which case one might translate, “I have long remembered your regulations.”
10 tn Or “find comfort.”
11 tn Or “were.”
12 sn Psalm 146. The psalmist urges his audience not to trust in men, but in the