| 1. A song with musical accompaniment for the Sabbath day. |
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| A song with musical accompaniment: of the Levites. |
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| for the Sabbath day: that they would recite on Sabbaths, and it deals with the world to come, which is entirely Sabbath. |
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| 2. It is good to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing to Your name, O Most High. |
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| 3. To declare in the morning Your kindness and Your faith at night. |
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| To declare in the morning Your kindness: At the time of the Redemption. |
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| and Your faith at night: And during the distress of the exile, to believe in You that You will keep Your promise, all this is splendid and good. |
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| 4. Upon a ten-stringed harp and upon a psaltery, with speech upon a harp. |
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| Upon a ten-stringed harp and upon a psaltery: Heb. עשור, a harp of ten strings. |
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| 5. For You have made me happy O Lord, with Your work; with the work of Your hands I shall exult. |
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| 6. How great are Your works, O Lord! Your thoughts are very deep. |
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| 7. A boorish man does not know; neither does a fool understand this. |
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| A boorish man does not know: What is stated below. |
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| 8. When the wicked flourish like grass, and all workers of violence blossom, only to be destroyed to eternity. |
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| When the wicked flourish like grass: they do not know that their flourishing is only to destroy them to eternity, for He recompenses His enemies to their face to destroy them. |
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| 9. But You remain on high forever, O Lord. |
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| But You remain on high: In all Your judgments, You have the upper hand, for all justify Your judgments. |
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| 10. For behold Your enemies, O Lord, for behold Your enemies will perish; all workers of violence will scatter. |
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| 11. But You have raised my horn like that of a wild ox; to soak me with fresh oil. |
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| to soak me with fresh oil: Heb. בלתי. To soak me with the oil of dominion. בַלֹתִי is like (Num. 15:9): “mingled (בלולה) with oil.” |
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| 12. My eye has gazed upon those who stare at me [with envy]; when evildoers rise up against me, my ears hear [them]. |
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| upon those who stare at me: Heb. בשורי, at those who stare at me, as (5:9): “those who lie in wait for me (בשוררי).” |
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| when evildoers rise up against me: About the wicked who rise up against me, my ears heard from behind the “veil” that they will not succeed in destroying us [perhaps, David and his men]. So I heard. |
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| 13. The righteous one flourishes like the palm; as a cedar in Lebanon he grows. |
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| The righteous one flourishes like the palm, etc.: Like the palm that produces fruit, and like the cedar insofar as its trunk renews itself. |
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| 14. Planted in the house of the Lord, in the courts of our God they will flourish. |
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| Planted: The righteous will be [planted] in the house of the Lord. |
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| 15. They will yet grow in old age; fat and fresh will they be. |
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| will… grow: Heb. ישגה, will grow. |
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| fat: Heb. דשנים, They will be fat and fresh, and then they will declare that the Lord is upright. |
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| 16. To declare that the Lord is upright, my rock in Whom there is no injustice. |
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