⁵ tn Or “publicly.”

⁴ tn Or “delivered a public address.”

³ tn Or “publicly placarded,” “set forth in a public proclamation” (BDAG 867 s.v. προγράφω 2).

³ tn Or “purposed,” “publicly displayed.” Cf. Rom 3:25.

¹ tn Heb “in the city,” that is, “in public.”

² tn Or “in secret” (as opposed to publicly, so that the other mourners did not hear).

¹ sn The public reading of scripture refers to reading the scripture out loud in the church services. In a context where many were illiterate and few could afford private copies of scripture, such public reading was especially important.

¹ tn Or “come under public criticism.” BDAG 101 s.v. ἀπελεγμός has “come into disrepute Ac 19:27.”

³ tn Or “in public, uncondemned.” BDAG 35 s.v. ἀκατάκριτος has “uncondemned, without due process” for this usage.

⁴ tn Or “to mourn” (referring to the loud wailing or crying typical of public mourning in that culture).

² sn The confidence Peter has in private (Lord, I am ready…) will wilt under the pressure of the public eye.

¹ sn The phrase strikes you on the cheek probably pictures public rejection, like the act that indicated expulsion from the synagogue.

¹ tn Or “confesses”; cf. BDAG 708 s.v. ὁμολογέω 4, “to acknowledge someth., ordinarily in public, acknowledge, claim, profess, praise.”

³ tn The cohortative forms in vv. 1-2 express the psalmist’s resolve to praise God publicly.

¹ sn The work crews. This Hebrew word מַס (mas) refers to a group of laborers conscripted for royal or public service.

² sn Work crews. This Hebrew word (מַס, mas) refers to a group of laborers conscripted for royal or public service.

³ sn The work crews. This Hebrew word (מַס, mas) refers to a group of laborers conscripted for royal or public service.

¹ sn That is, on top of the flat roof of the palace, so it would be visible to the public.

¹ sn The gate. In an ancient Near Eastern city the gate complex was the location for conducting important public business.

² tn Grk “whom God publicly displayed.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.