Discovery Box| (0.60) | (Psa 102:1) | 1 sn Psalm 102. The psalmist laments his oppressed state, but longs for a day when the Lord will restore Jerusalem and vindicate his suffering people. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 100:1) | 1 sn Psalm 100. The psalmist celebrates the fact that Israel has a special relationship to God and summons worshipers to praise the Lord for his faithfulness. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 101:1) | 1 sn Psalm 101. The psalmist, who appears to be a king, promises to promote justice in his land and vows to rid his royal court of evildoers. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 99:1) | 1 sn Psalm 99. The psalmist celebrates the Lord’s just rule and recalls how he revealed himself to Israel’s leaders. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 97:1) | 1 sn Psalm 97. The psalmist depicts the Lord as the sovereign, just king of the world who comes in power to vindicate his people. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 96:1) | 1 sn Psalm 96. The psalmist summons everyone to praise the Lord, the sovereign creator of the world who preserves and promotes justice in the earth. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 93:1) | 1 sn Psalm 93. The psalmist affirms that the Lord is the king of the universe who preserves order and suppresses the destructive forces in the world. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 84:1) | 1 sn Psalm 84. The psalmist expresses his desire to be in God’s presence in the Jerusalem temple, for the Lord is the protector of his people. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 80:1) | 1 sn Psalm 80. The psalmist laments Israel’s demise and asks the Lord to show favor toward his people, as he did in earlier times. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 75:1) | 1 sn Psalm 75. The psalmist celebrates God’s just rule, which guarantees that the godly will be vindicated and the wicked destroyed. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 72:20) | 1 tn Heb “the prayers of David, son of Jesse, are concluded.” As noted earlier, v. 20 appears to be a remnant of an earlier collection of psalms or an earlier edition of the Psalter. In the present arrangement of the Book of Psalms, not all psalms prior to this are attributed to David (see Pss 1-2, 10, 33, 42-50, 66-67, 71-72) and several psalms attributed to David appear after this (see Pss 86, 101, 103, 108-110, 122, 124, 131, 138-145). |
| (0.60) | (Psa 68:1) | 1 sn Psalm 68. The psalmist depicts God as a mighty warrior and celebrates the fact that God exerts his power on behalf of his people. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 63:1) | 1 sn Psalm 63. The psalmist expresses his intense desire to be in God’s presence and confidently affirms that God will judge his enemies. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 62:1) | 1 sn Psalm 62. The psalmist expresses his unwavering confidence in God’s justice and in his ability to protect his people. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 57:1) | 1 sn Psalm 57. The psalmist asks for God’s protection and expresses his confidence that his ferocious enemies will be destroyed by their own schemes. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 56:1) | 1 sn Psalm 56. Despite the threats of his enemies, the psalmist is confident the Lord will keep his promise to protect and deliver him. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 56:1) | 4 sn According to the superscription, David wrote this psalm when the Philistines seized him and took him to King Achish of Gath (see 1 Sam 21:11-15). |
| (0.60) | (Psa 45:16) | 1 tn The pronoun is second masculine singular, indicating the king is being addressed from this point to the end of the psalm. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 39:1) | 1 sn Psalm 39. The psalmist laments his frailty and mortality as he begs the Lord to take pity on him and remove his disciplinary hand. |
| (0.60) | (Psa 35:3) | 1 tn Or “javelin.” On the meaning of this word, which occurs only here in the Hebrew Bible, see M. Dahood, Psalms (AB), 1:210-11. |
