Discovery BoxPsalms 16:7 
Context16:7 I will praise 1 the Lord who 2 guides 3 me;
yes, during the night I reflect and learn. 4
Psalms 19:11
Context19:11 Yes, your servant finds moral guidance there; 5
those who obey them receive a rich reward. 6
Psalms 38:18
Context38:18 Yes, 7 I confess my wrongdoing,
and I am concerned about my sins.
Psalms 63:2
Context63:2 Yes, 8 in the sanctuary I have seen you, 9
and witnessed 10 your power and splendor.
Psalms 73:21
Context73:21 Yes, 11 my spirit was bitter, 12
and my insides felt sharp pain. 13
Psalms 73:27
Context73:27 Yes, 14 look! Those far from you 15 die;
you destroy everyone who is unfaithful to you. 16
Psalms 76:7
Context76:7 You are awesome! Yes, you!
Who can withstand your intense anger? 17
Psalms 77:17
Context77:17 The clouds poured down rain; 18
the skies thundered. 19
Yes, your arrows 20 flashed about.
Psalms 83:5
Context83:5 Yes, 21 they devise a unified strategy; 22
they form an alliance 23 against you.
Psalms 85:12
Context85:12 Yes, the Lord will bestow his good blessings, 24
and our land will yield 25 its crops.
Psalms 90:7
Context90:7 Yes, 26 we are consumed by your anger;
we are terrified by your wrath.
Psalms 105:42
Context105:42 Yes, 27 he remembered the sacred promise 28
he made to Abraham his servant.
Psalms 116:8
Context116:8 Yes, 29 Lord, 30 you rescued my life from death,
and kept my feet from stumbling.
Psalms 118:3-4
Context118:3 Let the family 31 of Aaron say,
“Yes, his loyal love endures!”
118:4 Let the loyal followers of the Lord 32 say,
“Yes, his loyal love endures!”
Psalms 119:24
Context119:24 Yes, I find delight in your rules;
they give me guidance. 33
Psalms 127:3
Context127:3 Yes, 34 sons 35 are a gift from the Lord,
the fruit of the womb is a reward.
Psalms 128:4
Context128:4 Yes indeed, the man who fears the Lord
will be blessed in this way. 36
Psalms 135:5
Context135:5 Yes, 37 I know the Lord is great,
and our Lord is superior to all gods.
1 tn Heb “bless,” that is, “proclaim as worthy of praise.”
2 tn Or “because.”
3 tn Or “counsels, advises.”
4 tn Heb “yes, [during] nights my kidneys instruct [or “correct”] me.” The “kidneys” are viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s moral character (see Ps 26:2). In the quiet darkness the
5 tn Heb “moreover your servant is warned by them.”
6 tn Heb “in the keeping of them [there is] a great reward.”
7 tn Or “for.” The translation assumes that כִּי (ki) is asseverative here.
8 tn The Hebrew particle כֵּן (ken) is used here to stress the following affirmation (see Josh 2:4).
9 tn The perfect verbal form is understood here as referring to a past experience which the psalmist desires to be repeated. Another option is to take the perfect as indicating the psalmist’s certitude that he will again stand in God’s presence in the sanctuary. In this case one can translate, “I will see you.”
10 tn Heb “seeing.” The preposition with the infinitive construct here indicates an accompanying circumstance.
11 tn Or perhaps “when.”
12 tn The imperfect verbal form here describes a continuing attitude in a past time frame.
13 tn Heb “and [in] my kidneys I was pierced.” The imperfect verbal form here describes a continuing condition in a past time frame.
14 tn Or “for.”
15 sn The following line defines the phrase far from you in a spiritual sense. Those “far” from God are those who are unfaithful and disloyal to him.
16 tn Heb “everyone who commits adultery from you.”
17 tc Heb “and who can stand before you from the time of your anger?” The Hebrew expression מֵאָז (me’az, “from the time of”) is better emended to מֵאֹז (me’oz, “from [i.e., “because of”] the strength of your anger”; see Ps 90:11).
18 tn Heb “water.”
19 tn Heb “a sound the clouds gave.”
20 tn The lightning accompanying the storm is portrayed as the
21 tn Or “for.”
22 tn Heb “they consult [with] a heart together.”
23 tn Heb “cut a covenant.”
24 tn Heb “what is good.”
25 tn Both “bestow” and “yield” translate the same Hebrew verb (נָתַן, natan). The repetition of the word emphasizes that agricultural prosperity is the direct result of divine blessing.
26 tn Or “for.”
27 tn Or “for.”
28 tn Heb “his holy word.”
29 tn Or “for.”
30 tn “
31 tn Heb “house.”
32 tn Heb “fearers of the
33 tn Heb “men of my counsel.” That is, God’s rules are like advisers to the psalmist, for they teach him how to live in a godly manner that refutes the accusations of his enemies.
34 tn or “look.”
35 tn Some prefer to translate this term with the gender neutral “children,” but “sons” are plainly in view here, as the following verses make clear. Daughters are certainly wonderful additions to a family, but in ancient Israelite culture sons were the “arrows” that gave a man security in his old age, for they could defend the family interests at the city gate, where the legal and economic issues of the community were settled.
36 tn Heb “look, indeed thus will the man, the fearer of the
37 tn Or “for.”
