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
88:12 Are your amazing deeds experienced 4 in the dark region, 5
or your deliverance in the land of oblivion? 6
119:123 My eyes grow tired as I wait for your deliverance, 7
for your reliable promise to be fulfilled. 8
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.
4 tn Heb “known.”
5 tn Heb “darkness,” here a title for Sheol.
6 tn Heb “forgetfulness.” The noun, which occurs only here in the OT, is derived from a verbal root meaning “to forget.”
sn The rhetorical questions in vv. 10-12 expect the answer, “Of course not!”
7 tn Heb “my eyes fail for your deliverance.” The psalmist has intently kept his eyes open, looking for God to intervene, but now his eyes are watery and bloodshot, impairing his vision. See the similar phrase in v. 82.
8 tn Heb “and for the word of your faithfulness.”