Discovery BoxPsalms 9:3 
Context9:3 When my enemies turn back,
they trip and are defeated 1 before you.
Psalms 25:21
Context25:21 May integrity and godliness protect me,
for I rely on you!
Psalms 33:3
Context33:3 Sing to him a new song! 2
Play skillfully as you shout out your praises to him! 3
Psalms 37:27
Context37:27 Turn away from evil! Do what is right! 4
Then you will enjoy lasting security. 5
Psalms 40:7
Context40:7 Then I say,
“Look! I come!
What is written in the scroll pertains to me. 6
Psalms 44:4
Context44:4 You are my 7 king, O God!
Decree 8 Jacob’s 9 deliverance!
Psalms 76:4
Context76:4 You shine brightly and reveal your majesty,
as you descend from the hills where you killed your prey. 10
Psalms 76:8
Context76:8 From heaven you announced what their punishment would be. 11
The earth 12 was afraid and silent
Psalms 107:17
Context107:17 They acted like fools in their rebellious ways, 13
and suffered because of their sins.
Psalms 130:4
Context130:4 But 14 you are willing to forgive, 15
so that you might 16 be honored. 17
Psalms 139:22
Context139:22 I absolutely hate them, 18
they have become my enemies!
1 tn Or “perish”; or “die.” The imperfect verbal forms in this line either emphasize what typically happens or describe vividly the aftermath of a recent battle in which the
2 sn A new song is appropriate because the Lord is constantly intervening in the lives of his people in fresh and exciting ways.
3 tn Heb “play skillfully with a loud shout.”
4 tn Or “Do good!” The imperatives are singular (see v. 1).
5 tn Heb “and dwell permanently.” The imperative with vav (ו) is best taken here as a result clause after the preceding imperatives.
6 tn Heb “in the roll of the scroll it is written concerning me.” Apparently the psalmist refers to the law of God (see v. 8), which contains the commandments God desires him to obey. If this is a distinctly royal psalm, then the psalmist/king may be referring specifically to the regulations of kingship prescribed in Deut 17:14-20. See P. C. Craigie, Psalms 1-50 (WBC), 315.
7 sn The speaker changes here to an individual, perhaps the worship leader or the king. The oscillation between singular (vv. 4, 6) and plural (vv. 1-3, 5, 7-8) in vv. 1-8 may reflect an antiphonal ceremony.
8 tc The LXX assumes a participle here (מְצַוֶּה [mÿtsavveh], “the one who commands/decrees”) which would stand in apposition to “my God.” It is possible that the MT, which has the imperative (צַוֵּה, tsavveh) form, has suffered haplography of the letter mem (ם). Note that the preceding word (אֱלֹהִים, ’elohim) ends in mem. Another option is that the MT is divided in the wrong place; perhaps one could move the final mem from אֱלֹהִים to the beginning of the next word and read מְצַוֶּה אֱלֹהָי (’elohay mÿtsavveh, “[You are my king,] my God, the one who decrees”).
tn Or “command.” This may be the Israelites’ petition prior to the battle. See the introductory note to the psalm.
9 tn That is, Israel. See Pss 14:7; 22:23.
10 tn Heb “radiant [are] you, majestic from the hills of prey.” God is depicted as a victorious king and as a lion that has killed its victims.
11 tn Heb “a [legal] decision,” or “sentence.”
12 tn “The earth” stands here by metonymy for its inhabitants.
13 tn Heb “fools [they were] because of the way of their rebellion.”
14 tn Or “surely.”
15 tn Heb “for with you [there is] forgiveness.”
16 tn Or “consequently you are.”
17 tn Heb “feared.”
18 tn Heb “[with] completeness of hatred I hate them.”
