translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: PSA

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “announce from day to day his deliverance.”


text: The verb “tell” is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).


text: Or perhaps “and feared by all gods.” See Ps 89:7 .


text: The Hebrew term אֱלִילִים (’ elilim , “worthless”) sounds like אֱלֹהִים (’ elohim , “gods”). The sound play draws attention to the statement.


text: Heb “majesty and splendor [are] before him.”


text: Heb “strength and beauty [are] in his sanctuary.”


text: Heb “the splendor of [i.e., “due”] his name.”


text: Or “in holy splendor.”


text: The verbal forms in v. 13 probably describe God’s typical, characteristic behavior, though they may depict in dramatic fashion the outworking of divine judgment or anticipate a future judgment of worldwide proportions, in which case they could be translated “will judge the world.”


text: Heb “and the nations with his integrity.”