translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: PSA

label: NET translator note

text: Or “his benefits” (see 2 Chr 32:25 , where the noun is also used of kind deeds performed by the Lord ).


text: This relatively rare noun refers to deadly diseases (see Deut 29:22 ; Jer 14:18; 16:4 ; 2 Chr 21:19 ).


text: Or “redeems.”


text: The Hebrew term שַׁחַת ( shakhat , “pit”) is often used as a title for Sheol (see Pss 16:10; 30:9; 49:9; 55:24 .


label: NET textual note

text: Heb “who satisfies with the good of your ornaments.” The text as it stands makes little, if any, sense. The translation assumes an emendation of עֶדְיֵךְ (’ ed ’ ekh , “your ornaments”) to עֹדֵכִי (’ odekhiy , “your duration; your continuance”) that is, “your life” (see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 [WBC], 18).


text: Heb “the Lord does fairness, and [acts of] justice for all the oppressed.”


text: Heb “made known his ways.” God’s “ways” in this context are his protective and salvific acts in fulfillment of his promise (see also Deut 32:4 ; Pss 18:30; 67:2; 77:13 [note vv. 11-12, 14 ]; 138:5; 145:17 ).


text: Heb “slow to anger” (see Ps 86:15 ).


text: Heb “and great of loyal love” (see Ps 86:15 ).


text: The Hebrew verb נָטַר ( natar ) is usually taken to mean “to keep; to guard,” with “anger” being understood by ellipsis. The idiom “to guard anger” is then understood to mean “to remain angry” (see Lev 19:18 ; Jer 3:5, 12 ; Nah 1:2 ). However, it is possible that this is a homonymic root meaning “to be angry” (see HALOT 695 s.v. נטר ).


text: Heb “not according to our sins does he do to us.”


text: Heb “and not according to our misdeeds does he repay us.”


text: For this sense of the verb גָבַר ( gavar ), see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 17, 19.


text: Heb “those who fear him.”


text: Heb “sunrise.”


text: Or “sunset.”


text: The Hebrew term פֶּשַׁע ( pesha ’, rebellious act”) is here used metonymically for the guilt such actions produce.


text: Or “sons,” but the Hebrew term sometimes refers to children in general.


text: Heb “our form.”


text: Heb “remembers.”


text: Heb “we [are] clay.”


text: Heb “[as for] mankind, like grass [are] his days.” The Hebrew noun אֱנוֹשׁ (’ enosh ) is used here generically of human beings. What is said is true of all mankind.


text: Heb “[the] wind.” The word “hot” is supplied in the translation for clarification.


text: Heb “but the loyal love of the Lord [is] from everlasting to everlasting over those who fear him.”


text: Heb “and his righteousness to sons of sons.”


text: Heb “to those who remember his precepts to do them.”


text: Heb “his kingdom rules over all.”


text: Heb “[you] mighty ones of strength, doers of his word, by listening to the voice of his word.”


text: Heb “all his hosts.”


text: Heb “his attendants, doers of his desire.”


text: Heb “all his works,” which includes mankind.


text: Heb “places.”