translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: PSA

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “O one who hears prayer.”


text: Heb “to you all flesh comes.”


text: Heb “the records of sins are too strong for me.”


text: Or “make atonement for.”


text: The Hebrew noun is an abstract plural. The word often refers metonymically to the happiness that God-given security and prosperity produce (see Pss 1:1; 2:12; 34:9; 41:1; 84:12; 89:15; 106:3; 112:1; 127:5; 128:1; 144:15 ).


text: Heb “[whom] you bring near [so that] he might live [in] your courts.”


text: Or “temple.”


text: Heb “[with] awesome acts in deliverance you answer us, O God of our salvation.”


text: Heb “a source of confidence [for] all the ends of the earth.” sn All the ends of the earth trust in you . This idealistic portrayal of universal worship is typical hymnic hyperbole, though it does anticipate eschatological reality.


label: NET textual note

text: Heb “and [the] distant sea.” The plural adjective is problematic after the singular form “sea.” One could emend יָם ( yam , “sea”) to יָמִים ( yamim , “seas”), or emend the plural form רְחֹקִים ( rÿkhoqim , “far”) to the singular רָחֹק ( rakhoq ). In this case the final mem ( ם ) could be treated as dittographic; note the mem on the beginning of the first word in v. 6 .


text: Heb “[the] one who establishes [the] mountains by his power.”


text: Heb “one [who] is girded with strength”; or “one [who] girds himself with strength.”


text: Heb “the roar of the seas.”


text: Heb “and the inhabitants of the ends fear because of your signs.” God’s “signs” are the “awesome acts” (see v. 5 ) he performs in the earth.


text: Heb “the goings out of the morning and the evening you cause to shout for joy.” The phrase “goings out of the morning and evening” refers to the sunrise and sunset, that is, the east and the west.


text: The verb form is a Polel from שׁוּק ( shuq , “be abundant”), a verb which appears only here and in Joel 2:24 and 3:13 , where it is used in the Hiphil stem and means “overflow.”


text: Heb “you greatly enrich it.”


text: Heb “[with] a channel of God full of water.” The divine name is probably used here in a superlative sense to depict a very deep stream (“a stream fit for God,” as it were).


text: The pronoun apparently refers to the people of the earth, mentioned in v. 8 .


text: Heb “for thus [referring to the provision of rain described in the first half of the verse] you prepare it.” The third feminine singular pronominal suffix attached to the verb “prepare” refers back to the “earth,” which is a feminine noun with regard to grammatical form.


text: Heb “saturating” [the form is an infinitive absolute].


text: Heb “flatten, cause to sink.”


text: Heb “trenches,” or “furrows.”


text: Heb “soften it,” that is, the earth.


text: Heb “its vegetation you bless.” Divine “blessing” often involves endowing an object with special power or capacity.


text: Heb “your good,” which refers here to agricultural blessings.


text: Heb “and your paths drip with abundance.”


text: Heb “drip.”


text: That is, with rich vegetation that brings joy to those who see it.