50:2 From Zion, the most beautiful of all places, 1
God comes in splendor. 2
73:18 Surely 3 you put them in slippery places;
you bring them down 4 to ruin.
87:2 The Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
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 The use of the Hebrew term אַךְ (’akh, “surely”) here literarily counteracts its use in v. 13. The repetition draws attention to the contrast between the two statements, the first of which expresses the psalmist’s earlier despair and the second his newly discovered confidence.
4 tn Heb “cause them to fall.”