² tn Or “obeys.”

³ tn Or “who obey.”

¹ tn Grk “as Sarah obeyed.”

² tn Or “obeys”; Grk “hears.”

³ tn Grk “are persuaded by, obey.”

¹ tn Heb “listen to,” that is, obey.

¹ tn Grk “you were slaves of sin but you obeyed.”

¹ tn Heb “listen”; KJV “obedient”; NASB “If you consent and obey.”

¹ tn Heb “do not listen to,” that is, do not obey.

⁴ tn Grk “keep.” L&N 36.19 has “to continue to obey orders or commandments—‘to obey, to keep commandments, obedience.’”

² tn Grk “hear,” but the idea of “hear and obey” or simply “obey” is frequently contained in the Greek verb ἀκούω (akouō; see L&N 36.14).

³ tn Heb “keep.” Ironically birds, which do not think, obey the laws of nature, but Israel does not obey the laws of God.

² tn The idiom “listen to the voice of” often means “obey.” The man “obeyed” his wife and in the process disobeyed God.

² tn Grk “keep it,” in the sense of obeying what they had initially been taught.

² sn Those who obey. The implication, of course, is that the leadership is disobeying God.

² tn Grk “obeys them, that one is the one who loves me.”

² tn Or “obey”; Grk “hear.” See the note on the phrase “respond to” in v. 29.

³ tn Or “the demons obey”; see L&N 36.18.

¹ tn Heb “We have obeyed and done according to all that our ancestor Jonadab commanded us.”

¹ tn The cohortative verbal form expresses the psalmist’s resolve to obey the law.