17:12 He 1 is like a lion 2 that wants to tear its prey to bits, 3
like a young lion crouching 4 in hidden places.
19:6 It emerges from the distant horizon, 5
and goes from one end of the sky to the other; 6
nothing can escape 7 its heat.
131:2 Indeed 8 I am composed and quiet, 9
like a young child carried by its mother; 10
I am content like the young child I carry. 11
137:7 Remember, O Lord, what the Edomites did
on the day Jerusalem fell. 12
They said, “Tear it down, tear it down, 13
right to its very foundation!”
1 tn Here the psalmist switches to the singular pronoun; he views his enemies collectively, or singles out a representative of the group, perhaps its leader.
2 tn Heb “his likeness [is] like a lion.”
3 tn Heb “[that] longs to tear.”
4 tn Heb “sitting.”
5 tn Heb “from the end of the heavens [is] its going forth.”
6 tn Heb “and its circuit [is] to their ends.”
7 tn Heb “is hidden from.”
8 tn Or “but.”
9 tn Heb “I make level and make quiet my soul.”
10 tn Heb “like a weaned [one] upon his mother.”
11 tn Heb “like the weaned [one] upon me, my soul.”
12 tn Heb “remember, O
13 tn Heb “lay [it] bare, lay [it] bare.”