Mazmur 64:6

64:6 They devise ¹  unjust schemes;

they disguise ²  a well-conceived plot. ³ 

Man’s inner thoughts cannot be discovered. ⁴ 

Mazmur 101:3

101:3 I will not even consider doing what is dishonest. ⁵ 

I hate doing evil; ⁶ 

I will have no part of it. ⁷ 

Mazmur 104:14

104:14 He provides grass ⁸  for the cattle,

and crops for people to cultivate, ⁹ 

so they can produce food from the ground, ¹⁰ 

Mazmur 104:25

104:25 Over here is the deep, wide sea, ¹¹ 

which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, ¹² 

living things both small and large.

[64:6]  ¹ tn Heb “search out, examine,” which here means (by metonymy) “devise.”

[64:6]  ² tc The MT has תַּמְנוּ (tamnu, “we are finished”), a Qal perfect first common plural form from the verbal root תָּמַם (tamam). Some understand this as the beginning of a quotation of the enemies’ words and translate, “we have completed,” but the Hiphil would seem to be required in this case. The present translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss in reading טָמְנוּ (tomnu, “they hide”), a Qal perfect third common plural form from the verbal root טָמַן (taman).

[64:6]  ³ tn Heb “a searched-out search,” which is understood as referring here to a thoroughly planned plot to destroy the psalmist.

[64:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the inner part of man, and a heart [is] deep.” The point seems to be that a man’s inner thoughts are incapable of being discovered. No one is a mind reader! Consequently the psalmist is vulnerable to his enemies’ well-disguised plots.

[101:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “I will not set before my eyes a thing of worthlessness.”

[101:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “the doing of swerving [deeds] I hate.” The Hebrew term סֵטִים (setim) is probably an alternate spelling of שֵׂטִים (setim), which appears in many medieval Hebrew mss. The form appears to be derived from a verbal root שׂוּט (sut, “to fall away; to swerve”; see Ps 40:4).

[101:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “it [i.e., the doing of evil deeds] does not cling to me.”

[104:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “causes the grass to sprout up.”

[104:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “for the service of man” (see Gen 2:5).

[104:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to cause food to come out from the earth.”

[104:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “this [is] the sea, great and broad of hands [i.e., “sides” or “shores”].”

[104:25]  ¹² tn Heb “where [there are] swimming things, and without number.”