Discovery BoxPsalms 28:9 
Context28:9 Deliver your people!
Empower 1 the nation that belongs to you! 2
Care for them like a shepherd and carry them in your arms 3 at all times! 4
Psalms 119:160
Context119:160 Your instructions are totally reliable;
all your just regulations endure. 5
Psalms 132:10
Context132:10 For the sake of David, your servant,
do not reject your chosen king! 6
Psalms 147:13
Context147:13 For he makes the bars of your gates strong.
He blesses your children 7 within you.
1 tn Or “bless.”
2 tn Heb “your inheritance.” The parallelism (note “your people”) indicates that Israel is in view.
3 tn Heb “shepherd them and lift them up.”
sn The shepherd metaphor is sometimes associated with royal responsibility. See 2 Sam 5:2; 7:7; Mic 5:2-4).
4 tn Or “forever.”
5 tn Heb “the head of your word is truth, and forever [is] all your just regulation.” The term “head” is used here of the “sum total” of God’s instructions.
6 tn Heb “do not turn away the face of your anointed one.”
7 tn Heb “your sons.”
