translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: PSA

label: NET translator note

text: The perfect verbal forms in vv. 1-3 are understood here as describing characteristic divine activities. Another option is to translate them as present perfects, “has performed…has accomplished deliverance, etc.” referring to completed actions that have continuing results.


text: Heb “makes known his deliverance.”


text: Heb “he remembers his loyal love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel.”


text: Heb “the deliverance of our God,” with “God” being a subjective genitive (= God delivers).


text: The verbal forms in v. 9 probably describe God’s typical, characteristic behavior, though they may depict in dramatic fashion the outworking of divine judgment or anticipate a future judgment of worldwide proportions (“will judge…”).