¹ tn Or “left all alone.”

¹ tn Heb “leave me alone.”

⁵ tn Grk “has left me to serve alone.”

² tn Heb “with his back” meaning “alone.”

² tn Heb “one”; NLT “was alone”; TEV “was childless.”

² tn Heb “that you, your name [is] the Lord, you alone.”

³ tn The Hiphil of רָפָה (rafah) means “to leave someone alone.”

⁴ tn Heb “and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.”

¹ tn Heb “bread.” The Hebrew term is generic here, however, referring to more than bread alone.

³ tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of the sons of mankind.”

³ tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

² tn Heb “Let the fleece alone be dry, while dew is on all the ground.”

³ tn Heb “my only one.” The psalmist may mean that his life is precious, or that he feels isolated and alone.

² tn Heb “from all the Jews”; KJV “more than all the Jews”; NIV “you alone of all the Jews.”

¹ tn Heb “there was no one [following] after the house of David except the tribe of Judah, it alone.”

¹ tn Heb “The man’s being alone is not good.” The meaning of “good” must be defined contextually. Within the context of creation, in which God instructs humankind to be fruitful and multiply, the man alone cannot comply. Being alone prevents the man from fulfilling the design of creation and therefore is not good.

⁵ sn He stomps the winepress. See Isa 63:3, where Messiah does this alone (usually several individuals would join in the process), and Rev 14:20.

² sn The winepress was stomped. See Isa 63:3, where Messiah does this alone (usually several individuals would join in the process).

⁴ tn That is, strictest religious party. “Party” alone is used in the translation because “the strictest religious party of our religion” would be redundant.

² sn Perhaps grope around for him and find him. The pagans’ struggle to know God is the point here. Conscience alone is not good enough.