45:16 Your 1 sons will carry 2 on the dynasty of your ancestors; 3
you will make them princes throughout the land.
90:9 Yes, 4 throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; 5
the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh. 6
1 tn The pronoun is second masculine singular, indicating the king is being addressed from this point to the end of the psalm.
2 tn The prefixed verbal form could be taken as jussive and the statement interpreted as a prayer, “May your sons carry on the dynasty of your ancestors!” The next line could then be taken as a relative clause, “[your sons] whom you will make princes throughout the land.”
3 tn Heb “in place of your fathers will be your sons.”
4 tn Or “for.”
5 tn Heb “all our days pass by in your anger.”
6 tn Heb “we finish our years like a sigh.” In Ezek 2:10 the word הֶגֶה (hegeh) elsewhere refers to a grumbling or moaning sound. Here a brief sigh or moan is probably in view. If so, the simile pictures one’s lifetime as transient. Another option is that the simile alludes to the weakness that characteristically overtakes a person at the end of one’s lifetime. In this case the phrase could be translated, “we end our lives with a painful moan.”