51:12 Let me again experience the joy of your deliverance!
Sustain me by giving me the desire to obey! 1
85:9 Certainly his loyal followers will soon experience his deliverance; 2
then his splendor will again appear in our land. 3
1 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.
2 tn Heb “certainly his deliverance [is] near to those who fear him.”
3 tn Heb “to dwell, glory, in our land.” “Glory” is the subject of the infinitive. The infinitive with -לְ (lÿ), “to dwell,” probably indicates result here (“then”). When God delivers his people and renews his relationship with them, he will once more reveal his royal splendor in the land.