6WHO? WILL HE GIVE [WILL BE] FROM ZION [THE] SALVATION<S> OF ISRAEL WHEN TURNS BACK GOD [THE] CAPTIVITY OF PEOPLE HIS LET IT BE GLAD JACOB LET IT REJOICE ISRAEL 6Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When God restores His captive people,*NoteCloseOr the fortunes of His people let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!
0TO THE CHOIRMASTER WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENTS A POEM OF DAVID WHEN CAME THE ZIPHITES AND THEY SAID TO SAUL ¿ NOT [IS] DAVID HIDING HIMSELF WITH US Save Me by Your Name (1 Samuel 23:7–29) 0For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil*NoteCloseMaskil is probably a musical or liturgical term; used for Psalms 32, 42, 44–45, 52–55, 74, 78, 88–89, and 142. of David. When the Ziphites went to Saul and said, “Is David not hiding among us?”
1O GOD BY NAME YOUR SAVE ME AND BY STRENGTH YOUR YOU WILL VINDICATE ME 1Save me, O God, by Your name, and vindicate me by Your might!
2O GOD HEAR PRAYER MY GIVE EAR! TO [THE] WORDS OF MOUTH MY 2Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.
3FOR STRANGERS THEY HAVE RISEN UP ON ME AND RUTHLESS [PEOPLE] THEY HAVE SOUGHT LIFE MY NOT THEY HAVE SET GOD TO BEFORE THEMSELVES SELAH 3For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life— men with no regard for God. Selah
4HERE! GOD [IS] A HELPER OF ME [THE] LORD [IS] <IN> [THOSE WHO] SUSTAIN <OF> LIFE MY 4Surely God is my helper the Lord is the sustainer of my soul.
5MAY HE BRING BACK THE EVIL TO ENEMIES MY IN FAITHFULNESS YOUR DESTROY THEM 5He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.
6IN VOLUNTARINESS I WILL SACRIFICE TO YOU I WILL GIVE THANKS TO NAME YOUR O YAHWEH FOR [IT IS] GOOD 6Freely I will sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, O LORD, for it is good.
7FOR FROM EVERY TROUBLE HE HAS DELIVERED ME AND ON ENEMIES MY IT HAS LOOKED EYE MY 7For He has delivered me from every trouble, and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.