¹tn Heb “you turned with a turning [toward] Jacob.” The Hebrew term twbv is apparently a cognate accusative of bwv. See Pss 14:7; 53:6.
²tn Heb “lifted up.”
³tn Heb “covered over.”
⁴tn Heb “the rage of your anger.” The phrase “rage of your anger” employs an appositional genitive. Synonyms are joined in a construct relationship to emphasize the single idea. For a detailed discussion of the grammatical point with numerous examples, see Y. Avishur, Semitics 2 (1971): 17-81. See Pss 69:24; 78:49.
⁵tn Heb “break your displeasure with us.” Some prefer to emend rph (“break”) to rsh (“turn aside”).
⁶tn Heb “Will your anger stretch to a generation and a generation?”
⁷sn I will listen. Having asked for the Lord’s favor, the psalmist (who here represents the nation) anticipates a divine word of assurance.
⁸tn Heb “speak.” The idiom “speak peace” refers to establishing or maintaining peaceful relations with someone (see Gen 37:4; Zech 9:10; cf. Ps 122:8).
⁹tn Heb “to his people and to his faithful followers.” The translation assumes that “his people” and “his faithful followers” are viewed as identical here.
¹⁰tn Or “yet let them not.” After the negative particle la, the prefixed verbal form is jussive, indicating the speaker’s desire or wish.
¹¹tn Heb “certainly his deliverance [is] near to those who fear him.”
¹²tn Heb “to dwell, glory, in our land.” “Glory” is the subject of the infinitive. The infinitive with -l=, “to dwell,” probably indicates result here (“then”). When God delivers his people and renews his relationship with them, he will once more reveal his royal splendor in the land.
¹³tn The psalmist probably uses the perfect verbal forms in v. 10 in a dramatic or rhetorical manner, describing what he anticipates as if it were already occurring or had already occurred.
¹⁴sn Deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. The psalmist personifies these abstract qualities to emphasize that God’s loyal love and faithfulness will yield deliverance and peace for his people.
¹⁵sn The psalmist already sees undeniable signs of God’s faithfulness and expects deliverance to arrive soon.
¹⁶tn Heb “what is good.”
¹⁷tn Both “bestow” and “yield” translate the same Hebrew verb (/tn). The repetition of the word emphasizes that agricultural prosperity is the direct result of divine blessing.
¹⁸tn Or “will go.”
¹⁹tn Or “will prepare.”
²⁰tn Heb “and it prepares for a way his footsteps.” Some suggest emending <cyw (“and prepares”) to <wlvw (“and peace”) since “deliverance” and “peace” are closely related earlier in v. 13. This could be translated, “and peace [goes ahead, making] a pathway for his footsteps” (cf. NEB).
²¹sn Psalm 86. The psalmist appeals to God’s mercy as he asks for deliverance from his enemies.