105:40 They asked for food, 1 and he sent quails;
he satisfied them with food from the sky. 2
107:9 For he has satisfied those who thirst, 3
and those who hunger he has filled with food. 4
1 tn Heb “he [i.e., his people] asked.” The singular form should probably be emended to a plural שָׁאֲלוּ (sha’alu, “they asked”), the vav (ו) having fallen off by haplography (note the vav at the beginning of the following form).
2 tn Or “bread of heaven.” The reference is to manna (see Exod 16:4, 13-15).
3 tn Heb “[the] longing throat.” The noun נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh), which frequently refers to one’s very being or soul, here probably refers to one’s parched “throat” (note the parallelism with נֶפֱשׁ רְעֵבָה, nefesh rÿ’evah, “hungry throat”).
4 tn Heb “and [the] hungry throat he has filled [with] good.”