Discovery BoxPsalms 19:13 
Context19:13 Moreover, keep me from committing flagrant 1 sins;
do not allow such sins to control me. 2
Then I will be blameless,
and innocent of blatant 3 rebellion.
Psalms 56:13
Context56:13 when you deliver 4 my life from death.
You keep my feet from stumbling, 5
so that I might serve 6 God as I enjoy life. 7
Psalms 88:8
Context88:8 You cause those who know me to keep their distance;
you make me an appalling sight to them.
I am trapped and cannot get free. 8
Psalms 132:12
Context132:12 If your sons keep my covenant
and the rules I teach them,
their sons will also sit on your throne forever.”
1 tn Or “presumptuous.”
2 tn Heb “let them not rule over me.”
3 tn Heb “great.”
4 tn The perfect verbal form is probably future perfect; the psalmist promises to make good on his vows once God has delivered him (see Pss 13:5; 52:9). (2) Another option is to understand the final two verses as being added later, after the
5 tn Heb “are not my feet [kept] from stumbling?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course they are!” The question has been translated as an affirmation for the sake of clarification of meaning.
6 tn Heb “walk before.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254; cf. the same idiom in 2 Kgs 20:3; Isa 38:3.
7 tn Heb “in the light of life.” The phrase is used here and in Job 33:30.
8 tn Heb “[I am] confined and I cannot go out.”
