22:4 In you our ancestors 1 trusted;
they trusted in you 2 and you rescued them.
73:27 Yes, 3 look! Those far from you 4 die;
you destroy everyone who is unfaithful to you. 5
94:8 Take notice of this, 6 you ignorant people! 7
You fools, when will you ever understand?
128:2 You 8 will eat what you worked so hard to grow. 9
You will be blessed and secure. 10
148:10 you animals and all you cattle,
you creeping things and birds,
148:12 you young men and young women,
you elderly, along with you children!
1 tn Heb “fathers.”
2 tn The words “in you” are supplied in the translation. They are understood by ellipsis (see the preceding line).
3 tn Or “for.”
4 sn The following line defines the phrase far from you in a spiritual sense. Those “far” from God are those who are unfaithful and disloyal to him.
5 tn Heb “everyone who commits adultery from you.”
6 tn Heb “understand.” The verb used in v. 7 is repeated here for rhetorical effect. The people referred to here claim God is ignorant of their actions, but the psalmist corrects their faulty viewpoint.
7 tn Heb “[you] brutish among the people.”
8 tn The psalmist addresses the representative God-fearing man, as indicated by the references to “your wife” (v. 3) and “the man” (v. 4), as well as the second masculine singular pronominal and verbal forms in vv. 2-6.
9 tn Heb “the work of your hands, indeed you will eat.”
10 tn Heb “how blessed you [will be] and it will be good for you.”