Mazmur 60:3
Konteks60:3 You have made your people experience hard times; 1
you have made us drink intoxicating wine. 2
Mazmur 75:8
Konteks75:8 For the Lord holds in his hand a cup full
of foaming wine mixed with spices, 3
and pours it out. 4
Surely all the wicked of the earth
will slurp it up and drink it to its very last drop.” 5
[60:3] 1 tn Heb “you have caused your people to see [what is] hard.”
[60:3] 2 tn Heb “wine of staggering,” that is, intoxicating wine that makes one stagger in drunkenness. Intoxicating wine is here an image of divine judgment that makes its victims stagger like drunkards. See Isa 51:17-23.
[75:8] 3 tn Heb “for a cup [is] in the hand of the
[75:8] 4 tn Heb “and he pours out from this.”
[75:8] 5 tn Heb “surely its dregs they slurp up and drink, all the wicked of the earth.”
[75:8] sn The psalmist pictures God as forcing the wicked to gulp down an intoxicating drink that will leave them stunned and vulnerable. Divine judgment is also depicted this way in Ps 60:3; Isa 51:17-23; and Hab 2:16.