Mazmur 78:61

78:61 He allowed the symbol of his strong presence to be captured; ¹ 

he gave the symbol of his splendor ²  into the hand of the enemy. ³ 

Mazmur 88:6

88:6 You place me in the lowest regions of the pit, ⁴ 

in the dark places, in the watery depths.

Mazmur 100:2

100:2 Worship ⁵  the Lord with joy!

Enter his presence with joyful singing!

Mazmur 105:16-17

105:16 He called down a famine upon the earth;

he cut off all the food supply. ⁶ 

105:17 He sent a man ahead of them ⁷  –

Joseph was sold as a servant.

Mazmur 106:27

106:27 make their descendants ⁸  die ⁹  among the nations,

and scatter them among foreign lands. ¹⁰ 

Mazmur 106:41

106:41 He handed them over to ¹¹  the nations,

and those who hated them ruled over them.

Mazmur 114:3

114:3 The sea looked and fled; ¹² 

the Jordan River ¹³  turned back. ¹⁴ 

Mazmur 114:5

114:5 Why do you flee, O sea?

Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?

Mazmur 147:15

147:15 He ¹⁵  sends his command through the earth; ¹⁶ 

swiftly his order reaches its destination. ¹⁷ 

[78:61]  ¹ tn Heb “and he gave to captivity his strength.” The expression “his strength” refers metonymically to the ark of the covenant, which was housed in the tabernacle at Shiloh.

[78:61]  ² tn Heb “and his splendor into the hand of an enemy.” The expression “his splendor” also refers metonymically to the ark of the covenant.

[78:61]  ³ sn Verses 60-61 refer to the Philistines’ capture of the ark in the days of Eli (1 Sam 4:1-11).

[88:6]  ⁴ tn The noun בּוֹר (bor, “pit,” “cistern”) is sometimes used of the grave and/or the realm of the dead. See v. 4.

[100:2]  ⁵ tn Or “serve.”

[105:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “and every staff of food he broke.” The psalmist refers to the famine that occurred in Joseph’s time (see v. 17 and Gen 41:53-57).

[105:17]  ⁷ tn After the reference to the famine in v. 16, v. 17 flashes back to events that preceded the famine (see Gen 37).

[106:27]  ⁸ tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”

[106:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “and to cause their offspring to fall.” Some emend the verb to “scatter” to form tighter parallelism with the following line (cf. NRSV “disperse”).

[106:27]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “among the lands.” The word “foreign” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[106:41]  ¹¹ tn Heb “gave them into the hand of.”

[114:3]  ¹² sn The psalmist recalls the crossing of the Red Sea (Exod 14:21).

[114:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “the Jordan” (also in v. 5). The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[114:3]  ¹⁴ sn The psalmist recalls the crossing of the Jordan River (Josh 3:13, 16).

[147:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the one who.”

[147:15]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the one who sends his word, the earth.” The Hebrew term אֶרֶץ (’erets, “earth”) is an adverbial accusative; one must supply a preposition before it (such as “through” or “to”) in the English translation.

[147:15]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “swiftly his word runs.”