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Psalms 20:4

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20:4 May he grant your heart’s desire; 1 

may he bring all your plans to pass! 2 

Psalms 33:10-11

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33:10 The Lord frustrates 3  the decisions of the nations;

he nullifies the plans 4  of the peoples.

33:11 The Lord’s decisions stand forever;

his plans abide throughout the ages. 5 

Psalms 55:9

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55:9 Confuse them, 6  O Lord!

Frustrate their plans! 7 

For I see violence and conflict in the city.

Psalms 83:3

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83:3 They carefully plot 8  against your people,

and make plans to harm 9  the ones you cherish. 10 

Psalms 92:5

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92:5 How great are your works, O Lord!

Your plans are very intricate! 11 

1 tn Heb “may he give to you according to your heart.” This probably refers to the king’s prayer for protection and victory in battle. See vv. 5-6.

2 sn May he bring all your plans to pass. This probably refers to the king’s strategy for battle.

3 tn Heb “breaks” or “destroys.” The Hebrew perfect verbal forms here and in the next line generalize about the Lord’s activity.

4 tn Heb “thoughts.”

5 tn Heb “the thoughts of his heart for generation to generation.” The verb “abides” is supplied in the translation. The Lord’s “decisions” and “plans” here refer to his decrees and purposes.

6 tn Traditionally בַּלַּע (bala’) has been taken to mean “swallow” in the sense of “devour” or “destroy” (cf. KJV), but this may be a homonym meaning “confuse” (see BDB 118 s.v. בַּלַּע; HALOT 135 s.v. III *בֶּלַע). “Their tongue” is the understood object of the verb (see the next line).

7 tn Heb “split their tongue,” which apparently means “confuse their speech,” or, more paraphrastically, “frustrate the plans they devise with their tongues.”

8 tn Heb “they make crafty a plot.”

9 tn Heb “and consult together against.”

10 tn The passive participle of the Hebrew verb צָפַן (tsafan, “to hide”) is used here in the sense of “treasured; cherished.”

11 tn Heb “very deep [are] your thoughts.” God’s “thoughts” refer here to his moral design of the world, as outlined in vv. 6-15.



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