Mazmur 44:4

44:4 You are my ¹  king, O God!

Decree ²  Jacob’s ³  deliverance!

Yesaya 30:30

30:30 The Lord will give a mighty shout ⁴ 

and intervene in power, ⁵ 

with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, ⁶ 

with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.

Yesaya 33:2

33:2 Lord, be merciful to us! We wait for you.

Give us strength each morning! ⁷ 

Deliver us when distress comes. ⁸ 

[44:4]  ¹ sn The speaker changes here to an individual, perhaps the worship leader or the king. The oscillation between singular (vv. 4, 6) and plural (vv. 1-3, 5, 7-8) in vv. 1-8 may reflect an antiphonal ceremony.

[44:4]  ² tc The LXX assumes a participle here (מְצַוֶּה [mÿtsavveh], “the one who commands/decrees”) which would stand in apposition to “my God.” It is possible that the MT, which has the imperative (צַוֵּה, tsavveh) form, has suffered haplography of the letter mem (ם). Note that the preceding word (אֱלֹהִים, ’elohim) ends in mem. Another option is that the MT is divided in the wrong place; perhaps one could move the final mem from אֱלֹהִים to the beginning of the next word and read מְצַוֶּה אֱלֹהָי (’elohay mÿtsavveh, “[You are my king,] my God, the one who decrees”).

[44:4]  tn Or “command.” This may be the Israelites’ petition prior to the battle. See the introductory note to the psalm.

[44:4]  ³ tn That is, Israel. See Pss 14:7; 22:23.

[30:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Lord will cause the splendor of his voice to be heard.”

[30:30]  ⁵ tn Heb “and reveal the lowering of his arm.”

[30:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “and a flame of consuming fire.”

[33:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “Be their arm each morning.” “Arm” is a symbol for strength. The mem suffixed to the noun has been traditionally understood as a third person suffix, but this is contrary to the context, where the people speak of themselves in the first person. The mem (מ) is probably enclitic with ellipsis of the pronoun, which can be supplied from the context. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:589, n. 1.

[33:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “[Be] also our deliverance in the time of distress.”