19:3 There is no actual speech or word,
nor is its 1 voice literally heard.
19:11 Yes, your servant finds moral guidance there; 2
those who obey them receive a rich reward. 3
81:9 There must be 4 no other 5 god among you.
You must not worship a foreign god.
87:6 The Lord writes in the census book of the nations, 6
“This one was born there.” 7 (Selah)
104:26 The ships travel there,
and over here swims the whale 8 you made to play in it.
105:32 He sent hail along with the rain; 9
there was lightning in their land. 10
107:36 He allowed the hungry to settle there,
and they established a city in which to live.
122:7 May there be peace inside your defenses,
and prosperity 11 inside your fortresses! 12
139:10 even there your hand would guide me,
your right hand would grab hold of me.
147:5 Our Lord is great and has awesome power; 13
there is no limit to his wisdom. 14
1 tn Heb “their.” The antecedent of the plural pronoun is “heavens” (v. 1).
2 tn Heb “moreover your servant is warned by them.”
3 tn Heb “in the keeping of them [there is] a great reward.”
4 tn The imperfect verbal forms in v. 9 have a modal function, expressing what is obligatory.
5 tn Heb “different”; “illicit.”
6 tn Heb “the
7 tn As noted in v. 4, the translation assumes a contrast between “there” (the various foreign lands) and “in her” (Zion). In contrast to foreigners, the citizens of Zion have special status because of their birthplace (v. 5). In this case vv. 4 and 6 form a structural frame around v. 5.
8 tn Heb “[and] this Leviathan, [which] you formed to play in it.” Elsewhere Leviathan is a multiheaded sea monster that symbolizes forces hostile to God (see Ps 74:14; Isa 27:1), but here it appears to be an actual marine creature created by God, probably some type of whale.
9 tn Heb “he gave their rains hail.”
10 tn Heb “fire of flames [was] in their land.”
11 tn or “security.”
12 tn The psalmist uses second feminine singular pronominal forms to address personified Jerusalem.
13 tn Heb “and great of strength.”
14 tn Heb “to his wisdom there is no counting.”