Ulangan 4:34
Konteks4:34 Or has God 1 ever before tried to deliver 2 a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, 3 signs, wonders, war, strength, power, 4 and other very terrifying things like the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
Ulangan 7:19
Konteks7:19 the great judgments 5 you saw, the signs and wonders, the strength and power 6 by which he 7 brought you out – thus the Lord your God will do to all the people you fear.
Mazmur 78:43-58
Konteks78:43 when he performed his awesome deeds 8 in Egypt,
and his acts of judgment 9 in the region of Zoan.
78:44 He turned their rivers into blood,
and they could not drink from their streams.
78:45 He sent swarms of biting insects against them, 10
as well as frogs that overran their land. 11
78:46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper,
the fruit of their labor to the locust.
78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail,
and their sycamore-fig trees with driving rain.
78:48 He rained hail down on their cattle, 12
and hurled lightning bolts down on their livestock. 13
78:49 His raging anger lashed out against them, 14
He sent fury, rage, and trouble
as messengers who bring disaster. 15
78:50 He sent his anger in full force; 16
he did not spare them from death;
he handed their lives over to destruction. 17
78:51 He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt,
the firstfruits of their reproductive power 18 in the tents of Ham.
78:52 Yet he brought out his people like sheep;
he led them through the wilderness like a flock.
78:53 He guided them safely along,
while the sea covered their enemies.
78:54 He brought them to the border of his holy land,
to this mountainous land 19 which his right hand 20 acquired.
78:55 He drove the nations out from before them;
he assigned them their tribal allotments 21
and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down. 22
78:56 Yet they challenged and defied 23 the sovereign God, 24
and did not obey 25 his commands. 26
78:57 They were unfaithful 27 and acted as treacherously as 28 their ancestors;
they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow. 29
78:58 They made him angry with their pagan shrines, 30
and made him jealous with their idols.
Mazmur 105:26-38
Konteks105:26 He sent his servant Moses,
and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
105:27 They executed his miraculous signs among them, 31
and his amazing deeds in the land of Ham.
they did not disobey his orders. 33
105:29 He turned their water into blood,
and killed their fish.
105:30 Their land was overrun by frogs,
which even got into the rooms of their kings.
105:31 He ordered flies to come; 34
gnats invaded their whole territory.
105:32 He sent hail along with the rain; 35
there was lightning in their land. 36
105:33 He destroyed their vines and fig trees,
and broke the trees throughout their territory.
105:34 He ordered locusts to come, 37
innumerable grasshoppers.
105:35 They ate all the vegetation in their land,
and devoured the crops of their fields. 38
105:36 He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the firstfruits of their reproductive power. 39
105:37 He brought his people 40 out enriched 41 with silver and gold;
none of his tribes stumbled.
105:38 Egypt was happy when they left,
for they were afraid of them. 42
[4:34] 1 tn The translation assumes the reference is to Israel’s God in which case the point is this: God’s intervention in Israel’s experience is unique in the sense that he has never intervened in such power for any other people on earth. The focus is on the uniqueness of Israel’s experience. Some understand the divine name here in a generic sense, “a god,” or “any god.” In this case God’s incomparability is the focus (cf. v. 35, where this theme is expressed).
[4:34] 2 tn Heb “tried to go to take for himself.”
[4:34] 3 tn Heb “by testings.” The reference here is the judgments upon Pharaoh in the form of plagues. See Deut 7:19 (cf. v. 18) and 29:3 (cf. v. 2).
[4:34] 4 tn Heb “by strong hand and by outstretched arm.”
[7:19] 5 tn Heb “testings” (so NAB), a reference to the plagues. See note at 4:34.
[7:19] 6 tn Heb “the strong hand and outstretched arm.” See 4:34.
[7:19] 7 tn Heb “the
[78:43] 8 tn Or “signs” (see Ps 65:8).
[78:43] 9 tn Or “portents, omens” (see Ps 71:7). The Egyptian plagues are referred to here (see vv. 44-51).
[78:45] 10 tn Heb “and he sent an insect swarm against them and it devoured them.”
[78:45] 11 tn Heb “and a swarm of frogs and it destroyed them.”
[78:48] 12 tn Heb “and he turned over to the hail their cattle.”
[78:48] 13 tn Heb “and their livestock to the flames.” “Flames” here refer to the lightning bolts that accompanied the storm.
[78:49] 14 tn Heb “he sent against them the rage of his anger.” The phrase “rage of his 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.
[78:49] 15 tn Heb “fury and indignation and trouble, a sending of messengers of disaster.”
[78:50] 16 tn Heb “he leveled a path for his anger.” There were no obstacles to impede its progress; it moved swiftly and destructively.
[78:50] 17 tn Or perhaps “[the] plague.”
[78:51] 18 tn Heb “the beginning of strength.” If retained, the plural form אוֹנִים (’onim, “strength”) probably indicates degree (“great strength”), but many ancient witnesses read “their strength,” which presupposes an emendation to אֹנָם (’onam; singular form of the noun with third masculine plural pronominal suffix).
[78:54] 19 tn Heb “this mountain.” The whole land of Canaan seems to be referred to here. In Exod 15:17 the promised land is called the “mountain of your [i.e., God’s] inheritance.”
[78:54] 20 tn The “right hand” here symbolizes God’s military strength (see v. 55).
[78:55] 21 tn Heb “he caused to fall [to] them with a measuring line an inheritance.”
[78:55] 22 tn Heb “and caused the tribes of Israel to settle down in their tents.”
[78:56] 23 tn Or “tested and rebelled against.”
[78:56] 24 tn Heb “God, the Most High.”
[78:56] 26 tn Heb “his testimonies” (see Ps 25:10).
[78:57] 27 tn Heb “they turned back.”
[78:57] 28 tn Or “acted treacherously like.”
[78:57] 29 tn Heb “they turned aside like a deceitful bow.”
[78:58] 30 tn Traditionally, “high places.”
[105:27] 31 tn Apparently the pronoun refers to “his servants” (i.e., the Israelites, see v. 25).
[105:28] 32 tn Heb “he sent darkness and made it dark.”
[105:28] sn He made it dark. The psalmist begins with the ninth plague (see Exod 10:21-29).
[105:28] 33 tn Heb “they did not rebel against his words.” Apparently this refers to Moses and Aaron, who obediently carried out God’s orders.
[105:31] 34 tn Heb “he spoke and flies came.”
[105:32] 35 tn Heb “he gave their rains hail.”
[105:32] 36 tn Heb “fire of flames [was] in their land.”
[105:34] 37 tn Heb “he spoke and locusts came.”
[105:35] 38 tn Heb “the fruit of their ground.”
[105:36] 39 tn Heb “the beginning of all their strength,” that is, reproductive power (see Ps 78:51).
[105:36] sn Verses 28-36 recall the plagues in a different order than the one presented in Exodus: v. 28 (plague 9), v. 29 (plague 1), v. 30 (plague 2), v. 31a (plague 4), v. 31b (plague 3), vv. 32-33 (plague 7), vv. 34-35 (plague 8), v. 36 (plague 10). No reference is made in Ps 105 to plagues 5 and 6.
[105:37] 40 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the
[105:37] 41 tn The word “enriched” is supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
