translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: PSA

label: NET translator note

text: Or perhaps “confident”; Heb “my heart is steadfast.” The “heart” is viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s volition and/or emotions.


text: BDB 1007 s.v. שַׁחַר takes “dawn” as an adverbial accusative, though others understand it as a personified direct object. “Dawn” is used metaphorically for the time of deliverance and vindication the psalmist anticipates. When salvation “dawns,” the psalmist will “wake up” in praise.


text: Or “the peoples.”


text: Heb “for great upon the sky [or “heavens”] [is] your loyal love.”


text: Or “be exalted.”


text: Heb “over all the earth [be] your splendor.” Though no verb appears, the tone of the statement is a prayer or wish. (Note the imperative form in the preceding line.)


text: Heb “right hand.”


text: Or “may be rescued.” The lines are actually reversed in the Hebrew text: “So that the ones you love may be rescued, deliver by your power and answer me.”


text: Heb “in his holy place.”


text: Gilead was located east of the Jordan River. Half of the tribe of Manasseh lived east of the Jordan in the region of Bashan.


text: Heb “the protection of my head.” sn Ephraim , one of Joseph’s sons, was one of two major tribes located west of the Jordan River. By comparing Ephraim to a helmet, the Lord suggests that the Ephraimites played a primary role in the defense of his land.


text: Heb “over Edom I will throw my sandal.” The point of the metaphor is not entirely clear. Some interpret this as idiomatic for “taking possession of.” Others translate עַל (’ al ) as “to” and understand this as referring to a master throwing his dirty sandal to a servant so that the latter might dust it off.


text: Heb “and futile [is] the deliverance of man.”


text: Heb “in God we will accomplish strength.” The statement refers here to military success (see Num 24:18 ; 1 Sam 14:48 ; Pss 60:12; 118:16-16 ).