translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: PSA

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “[O] one who lives.”


text: Traditionally “the Most High.”


text: The word refers specifically to a fowler (or hunter of birds).


text: Heb “put a cover over you” (see Ps 5:11 ).


label: NET textual note

text: The Hebrew text has the singular, but the plural should be read. The final yod ( י ) of the suffix, which indicates the plural, has dropped off by haplography (note the yod [ י ] at the beginning of the next word).


text: Traditionally the Hebrew term סֹחֵרָה ( sokherah ), which occurs only here in the OT, has been understood to refer to a buckler or small shield (see BDB 695 s.v.). But HALOT 750 s.v., on the basis of evidence from the cognate languages, proposes the meaning “wall.”


text: This probably alludes to a sneak attack by enemies in the darkness of night (see Song 3:8 ).


text: Apparently the deadly disease mentioned in v. 6 b is the understood subject here.


text: Heb “retribution on the wicked.”


text: Or “confront.”


text: For this sense of the Hebrew term נגע see Ps 38:11 .


text: Heb “your tent.”


text: Heb “for his angels he will command concerning you.”


text: Heb “in all your ways.”


text: Heb “so your foot will not strike a stone.”


text: Heb “walk upon.”


text: Or perhaps “cobra” (see Ps 58:4 ).


text: The words “the Lord says” are supplied in the translation to clarify that the words which follow are the Lord ’s oracle of assurance.


text: Or “make him secure” ( Heb “set him on high”).


text: Heb “because he knows my name” (see Ps 9:10 ).


text: Heb “length of days.”