Psalm 73:22-24

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Psalm 73:22 tn Or “brutish, stupid.”
2. Psalm 73:22 tn Heb “and I was not knowing.”
3. Psalm 73:22 tn Heb “an animal I was with you.”
4. Psalm 73:24 tn The imperfect verbal form here suggests this is the psalmist’s ongoing experience.
5. Psalm 73:24 tn Heb “and afterward [to] glory you will take me.” Some interpreters view this as the psalmist’s confidence in an afterlife in God’s presence and understand כָּבוֹד (kavod) as a metonymic reference to God’s presence in heaven. But this seems unlikely in the present context. The psalmist anticipates a time of vindication, when the wicked are destroyed and he is honored by God for his godly life style. The verb לָקַח (laqakh, “take”) here carries the nuance “lead, guide, conduct,” as in Num 23:14, 27-28; Josh 24:3 and Prov 24:11.