Mazmur 2:5

2:5 Then he angrily speaks to them

and terrifies them in his rage, ¹  saying, ² 

Mazmur 78:59

78:59 God heard and was angry;

he completely rejected Israel.

Mazmur 78:62

78:62 He delivered his people over to the sword,

and was angry with his chosen nation. ³ 

Mazmur 102:8

102:8 All day long my enemies taunt me;

those who mock me use my name in their curses. ⁴ 

Mazmur 110:5

110:5 O sovereign Lord, ⁵  at your right hand

he strikes down ⁶  kings in the day he unleashes his anger. ⁷ 

[2:5]  ¹ sn And terrifies them in his rage. This line focuses on the effect that God’s angry response (see previous line) has on the rebellious kings.

[2:5]  ² tn The word “saying” is supplied in the translation for clarification to indicate that the speaker is the Lord (cf. RSV, NIV).

[78:62]  ³ tn Heb “his inheritance.”

[102:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “by me they swear.” When the psalmist’s enemies call judgment down on others, they hold the psalmist up as a prime example of what they desire their enemies to become.

[110:5]  ⁵ tn As pointed in the Hebrew text, this title refers to God (many medieval Hebrew mss read יְהוָה, yehveh, “Lord” here). The present translation assumes that the psalmist here addresses the Lord as he celebrates what the king is able to accomplish while positioned at God’s “right hand.” According to this view the king is the subject of the third person verb forms in vv. 5b-7. (2) Another option is to understand the king as the addressee (as in vv. 2-3). In this case “the Lord” is the subject of the third person verbs throughout vv. 5-7 and is depicted as a warrior in a very anthropomorphic manner. In this case the Lord is pictured as being at the psalmist’s right hand (just the opposite of v. 1). See Pss 16:8; 121:5. (3) A third option is to revocalize אֲדֹנָי (’adonay, “Lord”) as אֲדֹנִי (’adoniy, “my lord”; see v. 1). In this case one may translate, “My lord, at his [God’s] right hand, strikes down.” In this case the king is the subject of the third person verbs in vv. 5b-7.

[110:5]  ⁶ tn The perfect verbal forms in vv. 5-6 are understood here as descriptive-dramatic or as generalizing. Another option is to take them as rhetorical. In this case the psalmist describes anticipated events as if they had already taken place.

[110:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the day of his anger.”