¹ tn Heb “our heart did not turn backward.” Cf. Ps 78:57.

² tn Heb “and our steps did [not] turn aside from your path.” The negative particle is understood by ellipsis (see the preceding line). God’s “path” refers to his commands, i.e., the moral pathway he has prescribed for the psalmist. See Pss 17:5; 25:4.

³ tn The psalmist speaks as Israel’s representative here.

⁴ tn Heb “in the midst of the earth.”

⁵ tn Heb “songs were your statutes to me.”

⁶ tn Heb “in the house of my dwelling place.” Some take the Hebrew noun מָגוֹר (magor) in the sense of “temporary abode,” and see this as a reference to the psalmist’s status as a resident alien (see v. 19). But the noun can refer to a dwelling place in general (see Ps 55:15).

⁷ tn Heb “rose up against us.”