60:3 You have made your people experience hard times; 1
you have made us drink intoxicating wine. 2
78:58 They made him angry with their pagan shrines, 3
and made him jealous with their idols.
103:14 For he knows what we are made of; 4
he realizes 5 we are made of clay. 6
105:9 the promise 7 he made to Abraham,
the promise he made by oath to Isaac!
105:24 The Lord 8 made his people very fruitful,
and made them 9 more numerous than their 10 enemies.
115:4 Their 11 idols are made of silver and gold –
they are man-made. 12
135:15 The nations’ idols are made of silver and gold,
they are man-made. 13
1 tn Heb “you have caused your people to see [what is] hard.”
2 tn Heb “wine of staggering,” that is, intoxicating wine that makes one stagger in drunkenness. Intoxicating wine is here an image of divine judgment that makes its victims stagger like drunkards. See Isa 51:17-23.
3 tn Traditionally, “high places.”
4 tn Heb “our form.”
5 tn Heb “remembers.”
6 tn Heb “we [are] clay.”
7 tn Heb “which.”
8 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the
9 tn Heb “him,” referring to “his people.”
10 tn Heb “his,” referring to “his people.”
11 tn The referent of the pronominal suffix is “the nations” (v. 2).
12 tn Heb “the work of the hands of man.”
13 tn Heb “the work of the hands of man.”