¹ tn Or “loyalty.”

¹ tn Heb “do loyalty.”

² tn Heb “did loyalty.”

¹ tn Heb “do loyalty.”

² tn Heb “did loyalty.”

¹ tn Or “loyalty and devotion.”

³ tn Heb “[the one who] does loyalty.”

¹ tn Heb “and you must do loyalty.”

² tn Heb “[is] his loyal love”; NIV “unfailing love”; NRSV “loyalty.”

¹ tn Heb “man of kindness,” “of loyalty,” or “of loyal love.”

² tn Heb “and I walk about in your loyalty.”

¹ tn Heb “do loyalty with”; or “act faithfully toward.”

² tn Heb “[the one who] does loyalty to his anointed one.”

¹ tn In this context חֶסֶד (khesed) could be taken as “loyalty” (“loyalty should be shown by his friend”).

² tn Heb “who keeps covenant and loyalty.” The syndetic construction of בְּרִית (b^erit) and חֶסֶד (khesed) should be understood not as “covenant” plus “loyalty” but as an adverbial construction in which חֶסֶד (“loyalty”) modifies the verb שָׁמַר (shamar, “keeps”).

¹ sn The statement demands uncompromising, radical loyalty to Jesus, a loyalty so powerful that it surpasses normal human relationships, even familial ones.

¹ tn More literally, “You will extend loyalty to Jacob, and loyal love to Abraham.”

¹ tn Heb “children [who] do not act deceitfully.” Here the verb refers to covenantal loyalty.

³ tn Heb “Men of loyalty are taken away.” The Niphal of אָסַף (ʾasaf) here means “to die.”

³ tn Heb “latter [act of] devotion”; NRSV “this last instance of your loyalty.”