² tn Heb “his step”; cf. TEV “sensible people watch their step.”

³ tn Grk “stepped out on land.”

³ tc The LXX reads: “ten steps.”

² tn Heb “they hunted our steps.”

² tn Heb “to push down my steps.”

² tn Heb “and the sun returned ten steps on the steps which it had gone down.”

¹ tn Heb “the shadow on the steps which it [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, with the sun, back ten steps.”

² tn Heb “made the shadow return, on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, back ten steps.”

³ tn Heb “I know the steps of your spirits.”

³ tn Grk “a step of a foot” (cf. Deut 2:5).

² tn Heb “Not to a man the walking and the establishing his step.”

¹ tn Heb “lift up your steps to,” which may mean “run, hurry.”

¹ tn Heb “the steps of his vigor,” the genitive being the attribute.

² tn The Hebrew word means “to wash; to bathe”; here it is the infinitive construct in a temporal clause, “my steps” being the genitive: “in the washing of my steps in butter.”

¹ tn Heb “step.” “Step” probably refers metonymically to the path upon which the psalmist walks. Another option is to translate, “you widen my stride.” This would suggest that God gives him the capacity to run quickly.

⁴ sn “Steps” is an implied comparison, along with “way,” to indicate the events of the plan as they work out.

² sn This verse is a summary statement. The next verses delineate intermediate steps (see v. 24) in the process.

³ tn The Hebrew text has וְיָבֹא (v^eyavoʾ, “and he comes”), but this likely needs to be emended to an original וַיָּבָס (vayyavas), from בּוּס (bus, “step on”).

¹ sn These steps probably functioned as a type of sundial. See HALOT 614 s.v. מַעֲלָה and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 256.

² sn These steps probably functioned as a type of sundial. See HALOT 614 s.v. מַעֲלָה and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 256.