Mazmur 78:28

78:28 He caused them to fall right in the middle of their camp,

all around their homes.

Mazmur 104:2

104:2 He covers himself with light as if it were a garment.

He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

Mazmur 106:44

106:44 Yet he took notice of their distress,

when he heard their cry for help.

Mazmur 107:25

107:25 He gave the order for a windstorm, ¹ 

and it stirred up the waves of the sea. ² 

Mazmur 107:29

107:29 He calmed the storm, ³ 

and the waves ⁴  grew silent.

Mazmur 107:33

107:33 He turned ⁵  streams into a desert,

springs of water into arid land,

Mazmur 116:15

116:15 The Lord values

the lives of his faithful followers. ⁶ 

Mazmur 135:10

135:10 He defeated many nations,

and killed mighty kings –

Mazmur 147:2

147:2 The Lord rebuilds Jerusalem, ⁷ 

and gathers the exiles of Israel.

Mazmur 147:4

147:4 He counts the number of the stars;

he names all of them.

[107:25]  ¹ tn Heb “he spoke and caused to stand a stormy wind.”

[107:25]  ² tn Heb “and it stirred up its [i.e., the sea’s, see v. 23] waves.”

[107:29]  ³ tn Heb “he raised [the] storm to calm.”

[107:29]  ⁴ tn Heb “their waves.” The antecedent of the third masculine plural pronominal suffix is not readily apparent, unless it refers back to “waters” in v. 23.

[107:33]  ⁵ tn The verbal form appears to be a preterite, which is most naturally taken as narrational. (The use of prefixed forms with vav [ו] consecutive in vv. 36-37 favor this.) The psalmist may return to the theme of God’s intervention for the exiles (see vv. 4-22, especially vv. 4-9). However, many regard vv. 33-41 as a hymnic description which generalizes about God’s activities among men. In this case it would be preferable to use the English present tense throughout (cf. NEB, NRSV).

[116:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “precious in the eyes of the Lord [is] the death of his godly ones.” The point is not that God delights in or finds satisfaction in the death of his followers! The psalmist, who has been delivered from death, affirms that the life-threatening experiences of God’s followers get God’s attention, just as a precious or rare object would attract someone’s eye. See Ps 72:14 for a similar expression of this belief.

[147:2]  ⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.