Discovery BoxPsalms 3:2 
Context3:2 Many say about me,
“God will not deliver him.” 1 (Selah) 2
Psalms 73:8
Context73:8 They mock 3 and say evil things; 4
they proudly threaten violence. 5
Psalms 115:2
Context115:2 Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
Psalms 118:2
Context118:2 Let Israel say,
“Yes, his loyal love endures!”
1 tn Heb “there is no deliverance for him in God.”
2 sn The function of the Hebrew term סֶלָה (selah), transliterated here “Selah,” is uncertain. It may be a musical direction of some kind.
3 tn The verb מוּק (muq, “mock”) occurs only here in the OT.
4 tn Heb “and speak with evil.”
5 tn Heb “oppression from an elevated place they speak.” The traditional accentuation of the MT places “oppression” with the preceding line. In this case, one might translate, “they mock and speak with evil [of] oppression, from an elevated place [i.e., “proudly”] they speak.” By placing “oppression” with what follows, one achieves better poetic balance in the parallelism.
