² tn Heb “And I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.”

¹ tn Heb “and every tongue that rises up for judgment with you will prove to be guilty.”

² tn Heb “[one] from the rising of the sun [who] calls in my name.”

³ tn Heb “and they swirled [with] the rising of the smoke” (cf. NRSV).

² tn Heb “those who rise up against me, evil [foes], my ears hear.”

³ tn Heb “the roar of those who rise up against you, which ascends continually.”

² tn Heb “you make those who rise against me kneel beneath me.”

¹ sn Rise up, O Lord! The psalmist’s mood changes from lament to petition and confidence.

² tn Heb “you make those who rise against me kneel beneath me.”

² tn Heb “rising early in the morning” (so KJV, ASV). The infinitive explains the verb “bless,” giving the circumstances of its action. The individual rises early to give his blessing.

¹ tn In v. 1 the psalmist describes his enemies as those who “confront” him (קָמִים [qamim], literally, “rise up against him”). Now, using the same verbal root (קוּם, qum) he asks the Lord to rise up (קוּמָה, qumah) in his defense.

¹ tn BDAG 271 s.v. ἐγείρω 3 has “raise, help to rise….Stretched out Ac 10:26.”

³ tn Heb “Who can rise up against…?” The verb יָקוּם (yaqum, “arise”) is here a figurative expression connoting resistance.

³ tn Heb “like the early rising dew that goes away”; cf. TEV “like the dew that vanishes early in the day.”

² tn The form is the Hitpolel participle from קוּם (qum): “those who are rising up against me,” or “my adversary.”

² tn Heb “for the Lord has vindicated you today from the hand of all those rising against you.”

² tn These two verbs form a verbal hendiadys: “you can rise up early and go” means “you can go early.”

¹ tn Heb “from the rising of the sun to its setting.” The extent is not temporal (“from sunrise to sunset”) but spatial (“from the place where the sun rises [the east] to the place where it sets [the west].” In the phenomenological language of OT cosmology, the sun was described as rising in the east and setting in the west.

³ sn Or born again. The Greek word ἄνωθεν (anōthen) can mean both “again” and “from above,” giving rise to Nicodemus’ misunderstanding about a second physical birth (v. 4).

² sn The Lord…has appeared to Simon. Jesus had made another appearance besides the one on the road. The excitement was rising. Simon refers to Simon Peter.