translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: PSA

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “lifted up.”


text: Heb “covered over.”


text: 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, “Pairs of Synonymous Words in the Construct State (and in Appositional Hendiadys) in Biblical Hebrew,” Semitics 2 (1971): 17-81. See Pss 69:24; 78:49 .


text: Heb “break your displeasure with us.” Some prefer to emend הָפֵר ( hafer , “break”) to הָסֵר ( haser , “turn aside”).


text: Heb “Will your anger stretch to a generation and a generation?”


text: 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 ).


text: Heb “to his people and to his faithful followers.” The translation assumes that “his people” and “his faithful followers” are viewed as identical here.


text: Or “yet let them not.” After the negative particle אֵל (’ el ), the prefixed verbal form is jussive, indicating the speaker’s desire or wish.


text: Heb “certainly his deliverance [is] near to those who fear him.”


text: Heb “to dwell, glory, in our land.” “Glory” is the subject of the infinitive. The infinitive with - לְ ( lÿ ), “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.


text: 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.


text: Heb “what is good.”


text: Both “bestow” and “yield” translate the same Hebrew verb ( נָתַן , natan ). The repetition of the word emphasizes that agricultural prosperity is the direct result of divine blessing.


text: Or “will go.”


text: Or “will prepare.”


text: Heb “and it prepares for a way his footsteps.” Some suggest emending וְיָשֵׂם ( vÿyasem , “and prepares”) to וְשָׁלוֹם ( vÿshalom , “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).