21:5 Your deliverance brings him great honor; 1
you give him majestic splendor. 2
24:7 Look up, 3 you gates!
Rise up, 4 you eternal doors!
Then the majestic king 5 will enter! 6
24:9 Look up, you gates!
Rise up, you eternal doors!
Then the majestic king will enter!
29:4 The Lord’s shout is powerful, 7
the Lord’s shout is majestic. 8
45:3 Strap your sword to your thigh, O warrior! 9
Appear in your majestic splendor! 10
96:6 Majestic splendor emanates from him; 11
his sanctuary is firmly established and beautiful. 12
106:20 They traded their majestic God 13
for the image of an ox that eats grass.
111:3 His work is majestic and glorious, 14
and his faithfulness endures 15 forever.
145:5 I will focus on your honor and majestic splendor,
and your amazing deeds! 16
145:12 so that mankind 17 might acknowledge your mighty acts,
and the majestic splendor of your kingdom.
1 tn Or “great glory.”
2 tn Heb “majesty and splendor you place upon him.” For other uses of the phrase הוֹד וְהָדָר (hod vÿhadar, “majesty and splendor”) see 1 Chr 16:27; Job 40:10; Pss 96:6; 104:1; 111:3.
3 tn Heb “lift up your heads.” The gates of the Lord’s dwelling place are here personified. The idiom “lift up the head” often means “be confident, bold” (see Judg 8:28; Job 10:15; Ps 83:2; Zech 1:21).
4 tn Heb “lift yourselves up.”
5 tn Or “king of glory.”
6 tn Following the imperatives of the preceding lines, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose or result.
7 tn Heb “the voice of the
8 tn Heb “the voice of the
9 tn Or “mighty one.”
10 tn The Hebrew text has simply, “your majesty and your splendor,” which probably refers to the king’s majestic splendor when he appears in full royal battle regalia.
11 tn Heb “majesty and splendor [are] before him.”
12 tn Heb “strength and beauty [are] in his sanctuary.”
13 tn Heb “their glory.” According to an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition, the text originally read “his glory” or “my glory.” In Jer 2:11 the
14 tn For other uses of the Hebrew phrase וְהָדָר-הוֹד (hod-vÿhadar, “majesty and splendor”) see 1 Chr 16:27; Job 40:10; Pss 21:5; 96:6; 104:1.
15 tn Or “stands.”
16 tn Heb “the splendor of the glory of your majesty, and the matters of your amazing deeds I will ponder.”
17 tn Heb “the sons of man.”