50:2 From Zion, the most beautiful of all places, 1
God comes in splendor. 2
50:3 Our God approaches and is not silent; 3
consuming fire goes ahead of him
and all around him a storm rages. 4
1 tn Heb “the perfection of beauty.”
2 tn Or “shines forth.”
sn Comes in splendor. The psalmist may allude ironically to Deut 33:2, where God “shines forth” from Sinai and comes to superintend Moses’ blessing of the tribes.
3 tn According to GKC 322 §109.e, the jussive (note the negative particle אַל, ’al) is used rhetorically here “to express the conviction that something cannot or should not happen.”
4 tn Heb “fire before him devours, and around him it is very stormy.”