69:23 May their eyes be blinded! 1
Make them shake violently! 2
103:5 who satisfies your life with good things, 3
so your youth is renewed like an eagle’s. 4
106:41 He handed them over to 5 the nations,
and those who hated them ruled over them.
1 tn Heb “may their eyes be darkened from seeing.”
2 tn Heb “make their hips shake continually.”
3 tc Heb “who satisfies with the good of your ornaments.” The text as it stands makes little, if any, sense. The translation assumes an emendation of עֶדְיֵךְ (’ed’ekh, “your ornaments”) to עֹדֵכִי (’odekhiy, “your duration; your continuance”) that is, “your life” (see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 [WBC], 18).
4 sn The expression your youth is renewed like an eagle’s may allude to the phenomenon of molting, whereby the eagle grows new feathers.
5 tn Heb “gave them into the hand of.”