Mazmur 60:2

60:2 You made the earth quake; you split it open. ¹ 

Repair its breaches, for it is ready to fall. ² 

Mazmur 107:41

107:41 Yet he protected ³  the needy from oppression,

and cared for his families like a flock of sheep.

[60:2]  ¹ tn The verb פָּצַם (patsam, “split open”) occurs only here in the OT. An Arabic cognate means “crack,” and an Aramaic cognate is used in Tg. Jer 22:14 with the meaning “break open, frame.” See BDB 822 s.v. and Jastrow 1205 s.v. פְּצַם.

[60:2]  sn You made the earth quake; you split it open. The psalmist uses the imagery of an earthquake to describe the nation’s defeat.

[60:2]  ² sn It is ready to fall. The earth is compared to a wall that has been broken by the force of the earthquake (note the preceding line) and is ready to collapse.

[107:41]  ³ tn Heb “set on high.”