Psalms 51:12

51:12 Let me again experience the joy of your deliverance!

Sustain me by giving me the desire to obey!

Psalms 104:30

104:30 When you send your life-giving breath, they are created,

and you replenish the surface of the ground.

Psalms 111:6

111:6 He announced that he would do mighty deeds for his people,

giving them a land that belonged to other nations.


tn Heb “and [with] a willing spirit sustain me.” The psalmist asks that God make him the kind of person who willingly obeys the divine commandments. The imperfect verbal form is used here to express the psalmist’s wish or request.

tn Heb “the strength of his deeds he proclaimed to his people, to give to them an inheritance of nations.”