¹ tn Heb “his.” The singular pronominal suffix is collective, referring back to God’s “people” (v. 62).

² tn Heb “his.” The singular pronominal suffix is collective, referring back to God’s “people” (v. 62).

² tn Heb “his.” The singular pronominal suffix is collective, referring back to God’s “people” (v. 62).

¹ tn Heb “his.” The singular pronominal suffix is collective, referring back to God’s “people” (v. 62).

³ tn The singular form is collective (see v. 10) or refers to the typical or representative oppressed individual.

² tn Heb “and the Lord is an elevated place for the oppressed.” The singular form דָּךְ (dakh, “oppressed”) is collective here.

⁵ tn Heb “him.” The singular form is used here in a collective or representative sense and is thus translated “them.”

¹ tn A number of modern translations regard this as a collective singular and translate “from enemies” (also in v. 31).

³ tn Though the noun is singular here, it may be collective, in which case it could be translated “chariots.”

¹ tn Though the noun is singular here, it may be collective, in which case it could be translated “chariots.”

¹ tn Heb “Ammon.” By metonymy the name “Ammon” is used collectively for the soldiers in the Ammonite army.

¹ tn Heb “it” (so NRSV), a collective singular referring to the invading nation (several times in this verse and v. 52).

² tn The terms “Levite, resident foreigner, orphan, and widow” are collective singulars in the Hebrew text (also in v. 13).

¹ tn The singular participle is to be taken here as a collective, representing all the inhabitants of the land.

¹ tn The verb נָשָׂא (nasaʾ, “take”) has here the sense of collect, take a census, or register the names.

² tn Heb “the tree of the field will give its fruit.” As a collective singular this has been translated as plural.

⁵ sn Aram became the collective name of the northern tribes living in the steppes of Mesopotamia and speaking Aramaic dialects.

² tn When the waters are collected to one place, dry land emerges above the surface of the receding water.

⁴ sn The verbs “collected…and blessed” emphasize the continuing effect of the past actions, i.e., Melchizedek’s importance.

³ tn This is a collective singular use of the term καρδία (kardia), so each of their hearts were burning, a reference itself to the intense emotion of their response.