² tn Grk “guilty of all.”

³ tn Grk “subjected,” “guilty,” “liable.”

⁶ tn Grk “subjected,” “guilty,” “liable.”

³ tn Heb “and the blood of the innocent they declare guilty.”

³ tn Grk “he is guilty of death.” L&N 88.313 states, “pertaining to being guilty and thus deserving some particular penalty—‘guilty and deserving, guilty and punishable by.’ οἱ δὲ ἀποκριθέντες εἶπαν, ᾿Ενοχος θανάτου ἐστίν ‘they answered, He is guilty and deserves death’ Mt 26:66.”

¹ tn Heb “declare/regard them as guilty.” Declaring the psalmist’s adversaries guilty is here metonymic for judging them or paying them back for their wrongdoing.

² tn Or “we are guilty”; the Hebrew word can also refer to the effect of being guilty, i.e., “we are being punished for guilt.”

¹ sn That is, “to judge the world to be guilty and liable to punishment.”

¹ tn Heb “and every tongue that rises up for judgment with you will prove to be guilty.”

² tn Heb “he will go out [as] a criminal” (that is, guilty).

¹ tn The Hiphil of this root means “declare wicked, guilty” (a declarative Hiphil), and so “condemns.”

¹ sn The verbs “guilty” and “innocent” are actually the verbs “I am wicked,” and “I am righteous.”

⁴ tn Heb “will be guilty”; NASB “considered offenders”; TEV “treated as traitors.”

⁴ tn Heb “declare to be evil”; NIV “condemning the guilty (+ party NAB).”

³ tn Heb “and it will be a sin to you”; NIV, NCV, NLT “be guilty of sin.”

² tn Heb “and guilty is the one whose strength is his god.” This assumes that אָשֵׁם (ʾashem) is a predicate adjective meaning “guilty” and that it relates to what follows.

² tn Heb “and they have become guilty, becoming guilty.” The infinitive absolute following the finite verb makes the statement emphatic and draws attention to the degree of guilt incurred by Edom due to its actions.

² sn The line portrays the insecurity of a guilty person—he flees because he has a guilty conscience, or because he is suspicious of others around him, or because he fears judgment.

¹ sn There is irony here. How can Festus write anything definite about Paul, if he is guilty of nothing.

³ tn The verb has the declarative sense in the Hiphil, “to declare guilty [or wicked]” or “to condemn.”