36:11 Do not let arrogant men overtake me,
or let evil men make me homeless! 1
69:24 Pour out your judgment 2 on them!
May your raging anger 3 overtake them!
91:10 No harm will overtake 4 you;
no illness 5 will come near your home. 6
1 tn Heb “let not a foot of pride come to me, and let not the hand of the evil ones cause me to wander as a fugitive.”
2 tn Heb “anger.” “Anger” here refers metonymically to divine judgment, which is the practical effect of God’s anger.
3 tn Heb “the rage of your anger.” The phrase “rage of your anger” employs an appositional genitive. Synonyms are joined in a construct relationship to emphasize the single idea. For a detailed discussion of the grammatical point with numerous examples, see Y. Avishur, “Pairs of Synonymous Words in the Construct State (and in Appositional Hendiadys) in Biblical Hebrew,” Semitics 2 (1971), 17-81.
4 tn Or “confront.”
5 tn For this sense of the Hebrew term נגע see Ps 38:11.
6 tn Heb “your tent.”