translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: PSA

label: NET study note

text: . The author is confident of the Lord’s protection and asks the Lord to vindicate him.


text: To devour my flesh . The psalmist compares his enemies to dangerous, hungry predators (see 2 Kgs 9:36 ; Ezek 39:17 ).


text: The Lord ’s house . This probably refers to the tabernacle (if one accepts Davidic authorship) or the temple (see Judg 19:18 ; 1 Sam 1:7, 24 ; 2 Sam 12:20 ; 1 Kgs 7:12, 40, 45, 51 ).


text: The level path refers to God’s moral principles (see the parallel line), which, if followed, will keep the psalmist blameless before his accusers (see v. 12 ).