Mazmur 90:11

90:11 Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? ¹ 

Your raging fury causes people to fear you. ² 

Mazmur 22:24

22:24 For he did not despise or detest the suffering ³  of the oppressed; ⁴ 

he did not ignore him; ⁵ 

when he cried out to him, he responded. ⁶ 

Mazmur 66:20

66:20 God deserves praise, ⁷ 

for ⁸  he did not reject my prayer

or abandon his love for me! ⁹ 

Mazmur 89:7

89:7 a God who is honored ¹⁰  in the great angelic assembly, ¹¹ 

and more awesome than ¹²  all who surround him?

Mazmur 102:15

102:15 The nations will respect the reputation of the Lord, ¹³ 

and all the kings of the earth will respect ¹⁴  his splendor,

[90:11]  ¹ tn Heb “Who knows the strength of your anger?”

[90:11]  ² tn Heb “and like your fear [is] your raging fury.” Perhaps one should emend וּכְיִרְאָתְךְ (ukhyir’otekh, “and like your fear”) to יִרְאָתְךְ (yir’otkh, “your fear”), understanding a virtual dittography (אַפֶּךָ וּכְיִרְאָתְךְ, ’apekha ukhyir’otekh) to have occurred. In this case the psalmist asserts “your fear [is] your raging fury,” that is, your raging fury is what causes others to fear you. The suffix on “fear” is understood as objective.

[22:24]  ³ tn Or “affliction”; or “need.”

[22:24]  ⁴ sn In this verse the psalmist refers to himself in the third person and characterizes himself as oppressed.

[22:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “he did not hide his face from him.” For other uses of the idiom “hide the face” meaning “ignore,” see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9. Sometimes the idiom carries the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 27:9; 88:14).

[22:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “heard.”

[66:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “blessed [be] God.”

[66:20]  ⁸ tn Or “who.” In a blessing formula after בָּרוּךְ (barukh, “blessed be”) the form אֲשֶׁר (’asher), whether taken as a relative pronoun or causal particle, introduces the basis for the blessing/praise.

[66:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “did not turn aside my prayer and his loyal love with me.”

[89:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “feared.”

[89:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in the great assembly of the holy ones.”

[89:7]  ¹² tn Or perhaps “feared by.”

[102:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “will fear the name of the Lord.” To “fear” God’s name means to have a healthy respect for his revealed reputation which in turn motivates one to obey God’s commands (see Ps 86:11).

[102:15]  ¹⁴ tn The verb “will fear” is understood by ellipsis in the second line (see the preceding line).