Discovery Box| (0.40) | (Psa 76:1) | 1 sn Psalm 76. The psalmist depicts God as a mighty warrior who destroys Israel’s enemies. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 74:8) | 3 tn Heb “they burn down all the meeting places of God in the land.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 73:28) | 1 tn Heb “but as for me, the nearness of God for me [is] good.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 70:4) | 3 tn Ps 40:16 uses the divine name “Lord” here instead of “God.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 69:30) | 1 tn Heb “I will praise the name of God with a song.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 68:30) | 6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 68:28) | 1 tn Heb “God has commanded your strength.” The statement is apparently addressed to Israel (see v. 26). |
| (0.40) | (Psa 68:29) | 1 tn Heb “Be strong, O God, [you] who have acted for us, from your temple in Jerusalem.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 68:6) | 3 sn God delivers the downtrodden and oppressed, but sinful rebels who oppose his reign are treated appropriately. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 67:4) | 2 tn Heb “for you judge nations fairly, and [as for the] peoples in the earth, you lead them.” The imperfects are translated with the present tense because the statement is understood as a generalization about God’s providential control of the world. Another option is to understand the statement as anticipating God’s future rule (“for you will rule…and govern”). |
| (0.40) | (Psa 66:1) | 1 sn Psalm 66. The psalmist praises God because he has delivered his people from a crisis. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 64:9) | 2 tn Heb “the work of God,” referring to the judgment described in v. 7. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 65:5) | 1 tn Heb “[with] awesome acts in deliverance you answer us, O God of our salvation.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 58:9) | 2 tn Apparently God (v. 6) is the subject of the verb here. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 55:19) | 2 tn Heb “[the ones] for whom there are no changes, and they do not fear God.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 54:3) | 3 tn Heb “and ruthless ones seek my life, they do not set God in front of them.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 53:6) | 1 tn This refers metonymically to God, the one who lives in Zion and provides deliverance for Israel. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 53:2) | 4 tn That is, who seeks to have a relationship with God by obeying and worshiping him. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 52:6) | 1 tn Heb “and the godly will see and will fear and at him will laugh.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 50:21) | 1 sn The Lord was silent in the sense that he delayed punishment. Of course, God’s patience toward sinners eventually runs out. The divine “silence” is only temporary (see v. 3, where the psalmist, having described God’s arrival, observes that “he is not silent”). |
