10:16 The Lord rules forever! 1
The nations are driven out of his land. 2
37:11 But the oppressed will possess the land
and enjoy great prosperity. 3
37:29 The godly will possess the land
and will dwell in it permanently.
78:45 He sent swarms of biting insects against them, 4
as well as frogs that overran their land. 5
80:9 You cleared the ground for it; 6
it took root, 7
and filled the land.
85:12 Yes, the Lord will bestow his good blessings, 8
and our land will yield 9 its crops.
95:5 The sea is his, for he made it.
His hands formed the dry land.
105:11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
as the portion of your inheritance.”
105:23 Israel moved to 10 Egypt;
Jacob lived for a time 11 in the land of Ham.
105:27 They executed his miraculous signs among them, 12
and his amazing deeds in the land of Ham.
105:30 Their land was overrun by frogs,
which even got into the rooms of their kings.
105:32 He sent hail along with the rain; 13
there was lightning in their land. 14
105:35 They ate all the vegetation in their land,
and devoured the crops of their fields. 15
105:36 He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the firstfruits of their reproductive power. 16
106:22 amazing feats in the land of Ham,
mighty 17 acts by the Red Sea.
106:24 They rejected the fruitful land; 18
they did not believe his promise. 19
107:33 He turned 20 streams into a desert,
springs of water into arid land,
107:34 and a fruitful land into a barren place, 21
because of the sin of its inhabitants.
116:9 I will serve 22 the Lord
in the land 23 of the living.
119:19 I am like a foreigner in this land. 24
Do not hide your commands from me!
135:12 He gave their land as an inheritance,
as an inheritance to Israel his people.
136:21 and gave their land as an inheritance,
for his loyal love endures,
137:4 How can we sing a song to the Lord
in a foreign land?
1 tn Heb “the
2 tn Or “the nations perish from his land.” The perfect verb form may express what is typical or it may express rhetorically the psalmist’s certitude that God’s deliverance is “as good as done.”
sn The nations may be the underlying reality behind the psalmist’s references to the “wicked” in the earlier verses. This reference to the nations may have motivated the combining of Ps 10 with Ps 9 (see Ps 9:5, 15, 19).
3 tn Heb “and they will take delight in (see v. 4) abundance of peace.”
4 tn Heb “and he sent an insect swarm against them and it devoured them.”
5 tn Heb “and a swarm of frogs and it destroyed them.”
6 tn Heb “you cleared away before it.”
7 tn Heb “and it took root [with] its roots.”
8 tn Heb “what is good.”
9 tn Both “bestow” and “yield” translate the same Hebrew verb (נָתַן, natan). The repetition of the word emphasizes that agricultural prosperity is the direct result of divine blessing.
10 tn Heb “entered.”
11 tn Heb “lived as a resident alien.”
12 tn Apparently the pronoun refers to “his servants” (i.e., the Israelites, see v. 25).
13 tn Heb “he gave their rains hail.”
14 tn Heb “fire of flames [was] in their land.”
15 tn Heb “the fruit of their ground.”
16 tn Heb “the beginning of all their strength,” that is, reproductive power (see Ps 78:51).
sn Verses 28-36 recall the plagues in a different order than the one presented in Exodus: v. 28 (plague 9), v. 29 (plague 1), v. 30 (plague 2), v. 31a (plague 4), v. 31b (plague 3), vv. 32-33 (plague 7), vv. 34-35 (plague 8), v. 36 (plague 10). No reference is made in Ps 105 to plagues 5 and 6.
17 tn Or “awe-inspiring.”
18 tn Heb “a land of delight” (see also Jer 3:19; Zech 7:14).
19 tn Heb “his word.”
20 tn The verbal form appears to be a preterite, which is most naturally taken as narrational. (The use of prefixed forms with vav [ו] consecutive in vv. 36-37 favor this.) The psalmist may return to the theme of God’s intervention for the exiles (see vv. 4-22, especially vv. 4-9). However, many regard vv. 33-41 as a hymnic description which generalizes about God’s activities among men. In this case it would be preferable to use the English present tense throughout (cf. NEB, NRSV).
21 tn Heb “a salty land.”
22 tn Heb “walk before” (see Ps 56:13). On the meaning of the Hebrew idiom, see the notes at 2 Kgs 20:3/Isa 38:3.
23 tn Heb “lands, regions.”
24 tn Heb “I am a resident alien in the land.” Resident aliens were especially vulnerable and in need of help. They needed to know the social and legal customs of the land to avoid getting into trouble. The translation (note the addition of “like”) assumes the psalmist is speaking metaphorically, not literally.