² sn These trimming shears were used to trim the wicks of the lamps.

³ tn Heb “Turn, each one from his wicked way.” See v. 8.

³ tn Heb “Why does the way [= course of life] of the wicked prosper?”

² tn Heb “so that even the wicked women you teach your ways.”

¹ tn Heb “Let the wicked one abandon his way.” The singular is collective.

³ tn Heb “and he will arise against the house of the wicked.”

² tn Heb “the wicked are not”; ASV, NAB, NASB “is no more.”

¹ tn Heb “the dread of the wicked.” The noun רָשָׁע (rashaʿ, “wicked”) is a subjective genitive. The noun מְגוֹרַת (m^egorat) refers to “the feared thing,” that is, what the wicked dread. The wicked are afraid of the consequences of their sinful actions; however, they cannot escape these consequences.

⁴ tn Heb “or the destruction of the wicked when it comes.” The noun רְשָׁעִים (r^eshaʿim, “wicked ones”) probably functions as an objective genitive (the destruction that comes on the wicked) or a genitive of source (the destruction that the wicked bring on others).

¹ tn In this context “desire” refers to the followers’ desire to be delivered from wicked enemies.

¹ sn Psalm 92. The psalmist praises God because he defeats the wicked and vindicates his loyal followers.

³ tn Heb “surely its dregs they slurp up and drink, all the wicked of the earth.”

¹ tn The singular is representative here, as is the singular from “wicked” in the next line.

⁴ tn Heb “wickedness,” but here the term refers to the destructive effects of their wicked acts.

¹ tn Heb “and yet, a little, there will be no wicked [one].”

³ tn Heb “rescue my life from the wicked [one] [by] your sword.”

⁴ tn Or “when he [i.e., the wicked man] pulls in his net.”

² sn In Ps 2:4 it was God who mocked the wicked by judging them.

¹ tn Heb “his bull,” but it is meant to signify the bulls of the wicked.

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