Psalms 28:9

28:9 Deliver your people!

Empower the nation that belongs to you!

Care for them like a shepherd and carry them in your arms at all times!

Psalms 33:12

33:12 How blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,

the people whom he has chosen to be his special possession.

Psalms 74:2

74:2 Remember your people whom you acquired in ancient times,

whom you rescued so they could be your very own nation,

as well as Mount Zion, where you dwell!

Psalms 78:71

78:71 He took him away from following the mother sheep, 10 

and made him the shepherd of Jacob, his people,

and of Israel, his chosen nation. 11 

Psalms 83:4

83:4 They say, “Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! 12 

Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”

Psalms 106:5

106:5 so I may see the prosperity 13  of your chosen ones,

rejoice along with your nation, 14 

and boast along with the people who belong to you. 15 


tn Or “bless.”

tn Heb “your inheritance.” The parallelism (note “your people”) indicates that Israel is in view.

tn Heb “shepherd them and lift them up.”

sn The shepherd metaphor is sometimes associated with royal responsibility. See 2 Sam 5:2; 7:7; Mic 5:2-4).

tn Or “forever.”

tn The Hebrew noun is an abstract plural. The word often refers metonymically to the happiness that God-given security and prosperity produce (see Pss 1:1; 2:12; 34:9; 41:1; 65:4; 84:12; 89:15; 106:3; 112:1; 127:5; 128:1; 144:15).

tn Heb “inheritance.”

tn Heb “your assembly,” which pictures God’s people as an assembled community.

tn Heb “redeemed.” The verb “redeem” casts God in the role of a leader who protects members of his extended family in times of need and crisis (see Ps 19:14).

tn Heb “the tribe of your inheritance” (see Jer 10:16; 51:19).

10 tn Heb “from after the ewes he brought him.”

11 tn Heb “to shepherd Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.”

12 tn Heb “we will cause them to disappear from [being] a nation.”

13 tn Heb “good.”

14 tn Heb “in order that [I may] rejoice with the rejoicing of your nation.”

15 tn Heb “with your inheritance.”