Discovery BoxPsalms 35:3 
Context35:3 Use your spear and lance 1 against 2 those who chase me!
Assure me with these words: 3 “I am your deliverer!”
Psalms 47:1
ContextFor the music director; by the Korahites; a psalm.
47:1 All you nations, clap your hands!
Shout out to God in celebration! 5
Psalms 51:14
Context51:14 Rescue me from the guilt of murder, 6 O God, the God who delivers me!
Then my tongue will shout for joy because of your deliverance. 7
Psalms 62:10
Context62:10 Do not trust in what you can gain by oppression! 8
Do not put false confidence in what you can gain by robbery! 9
If wealth increases, do not become attached to it! 10
Psalms 79:10
Context79:10 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servants
be avenged among the nations! 11
1 tn Or “javelin.” On the meaning of this word, which occurs only here in the Hebrew Bible, see M. Dahood, Psalms (AB), 1:210-11.
2 tn Heb “draw out spear and lance to meet.”
3 tn Heb “say to me,” or “say to my soul.”
4 sn Psalm 47. In this hymn the covenant community praises the Lord as the exalted king of the earth who has given them victory over the nations and a land in which to live.
5 tn Heb “Shout to God with [the] sound of a ringing cry!”
6 tn Heb “from bloodshed.” “Bloodshed” here stands by metonymy for the guilt which it produces.
7 tn Heb “my tongue will shout for joy your deliverance.” Another option is to take the prefixed verbal form as a jussive, “may my tongue shout for joy.” However, the pattern in vv. 12-15 appears to be prayer/request (see vv. 12, 14a, 15a) followed by promise/vow (see vv. 13, 14b, 15b).
8 tn Heb “do not trust in oppression.” Here “oppression” stands by metonymy for the riches that can be gained by oppressive measures, as the final line of the verse indicates.
9 tn Heb “and in robbery do not place vain hope.” Here “robbery” stands by metonymy for the riches that can be gained by theft, as the next line of the verse indicates.
10 tn Heb “[as for] wealth, when it bears fruit, do not set [your] heart [on it].”
11 tn Heb “may it be known among the nations, to our eyes, the vengeance of the shed blood of your servants.”
