¹ tn The king is now addressed. One could argue that the Lord is still being addressed, but v. 9 militates against this proposal, for there the Lord is mentioned in the third person and appears to be distinct from the addressee (unless, of course, one takes “Lord” in v. 9 as vocative; see the note on “them” in v. 9b). Verse 7 begins this transition to a new addressee by referring to both the king and the Lord in the third person (in vv. 1-6 the Lord is addressed and only the king referred to in the third person).

² tn Heb “your hand finds.” The idiom pictures the king grabbing hold of his enemies and defeating them (see 1 Sam 23:17). The imperfect verbal forms in vv. 8-12 may be translated with the future tense, as long as the future is understood as generalizing.

³ tn Heb “your right hand finds those who hate you.”

⁴ tn Heb “in your strength,” but English idiom does not require the pronoun.

sn The psalm concludes with a petition to the Lord, asking him to continue to intervene in strength for the king and nation.

⁵ tn Heb “sing praise.”

⁶ tn Heb “for the arms of the evil ones will be broken.”

⁷ tn The active participle here indicates this is characteristically true.

⁸ tn Heb “right hand.”

⁹ tn The Qere (marginal reading) has “me,” while the Kethib (consonantal text) has “us.”

¹⁰ tn Or “may be rescued.” The lines are actually reversed in the Hebrew text, “So that the ones you love may be rescued, deliver by your power and answer me.”

¹¹ tn Heb “in God we will accomplish strength.” The statement refers here to military success (see Num 24:18; 1 Sam 14:48; Pss 108:13; 118:15-16).

¹² sn Trample down. On this expression see Ps 44:5.

¹³ tn The Hebrew particle כֵּן (ken) is used here to stress the following affirmation (see Josh 2:4).

¹⁴ 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.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “seeing.” The preposition with the infinitive construct here indicates an accompanying circumstance.

¹⁶ tn Heb “[the] one who establishes [the] mountains by his power.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “one [who] is girded with strength”; or “one [who] girds himself with strength.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “stir up”; “arouse.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “come for our deliverance.”

²⁰ tn Heb “hand.”

²¹ tn Heb “the beginning of all their strength,” that is, reproductive power (see Ps 78:51).

sn Verses 28-36 recall the plagues in a different order than the one presented in Exodus: v. 28 (plague 9), v. 29 (plague 1), v. 30 (plague 2), v. 31a (plague 4), v. 31b (plague 3), vv. 32-33 (plague 7), vv. 34-35 (plague 8), v. 36 (plague 10). No reference is made in Ps 105 to plagues 5 and 6.

²² tn Heb “his name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.

²³ tn Heb “right hand.”

²⁴ tn Or “may be rescued.” The lines are actually reversed in the Hebrew text: “So that the ones you love may be rescued, deliver by your power and answer me.”

²⁵ tn Heb “in God we will accomplish strength.” The statement refers here to military success (see Num 24:18; 1 Sam 14:48; Pss 60:12; 118:16-16).

²⁶ sn On the expression trample down our enemies see Ps 44:5.

²⁷ tn The prefixed verbal form is understood as an imperfect, indicating how the psalmist expects his audience to respond to his praise. Another option is to take the forms as a jussive, indicating the psalmist’s wish, “may they proclaim.”

²⁸ tn Heb “and great of strength.”

²⁹ tn Heb “to his wisdom there is no counting.”