¹ tn Or “oppress.”

² tn Heb “with rigor, oppression.”

¹ tn Heb “he honors the oppressed [with] deliverance.”

¹ tn Heb “executes justice for the oppressed.”

² tn Heb “from the oppression of calamity.”

³ tn Heb “our oppression and our affliction.”

³ tn Heb “for he saw the oppression of Israel, for the king of Syria oppressed them.”

² tn Heb “and they oppress a man and his home.”

¹ tn Heb “and the resident foreigner they have oppressed without justice.”

¹ tn Heb “Stop oppressing resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.”

⁵ tn Heb “All of it oppression in its midst.”

² tn Heb “and you trust in oppression and cunning.”

³ tn Heb “has extorted his neighbor”; ASV “oppressed”; NRSV “defrauded.”

¹ tn The term translated “oppressed” is an objective genitive; the oppressed are the recipients/victims of violence.

² tn Heb “and the Lord is an elevated place for the oppressed.” The singular form דָּךְ (dakh, “oppressed”) is collective here.

⁸ sn Again, as with the previous phrases, oppressed may well mean more than simply political or economic oppression, but a deeper reality of oppression by sin (Luke 1:77-79; 18:35-43).

³ sn Once again there is irony in the divine judgment. The oppressive nation itself will suffer oppression. The verb “oppress” (לָחַץ, lakhats) in this verse is not the same as that used in 4:1 (עָשַׁק, ʿashaq).

¹ tn Heb “do not trust in oppression.” Here “oppression” stands by metonymy for the riches that can be gained by oppressive measures, as the final line of the verse indicates.

³ tn Heb “the cry for help of the oppressed.” In this context the “oppressed” are the psalmist and those he represents, whom the hostile nations have threatened.

¹ tn Or “were oppressed by,” “were troubled with.” See L&N 22.17.