83:15 chase them with your gale winds,
and terrify 1 them with your windstorm.
104:4 He makes the winds his messengers,
and the flaming fire his attendant. 2
1 tn The two imperfect verbal forms in v. 15 express the psalmist’s wish or prayer.
2 tc Heb “and his attendants a flaming fire.” The lack of agreement between the singular “fire” and plural “attendants” has prompted various emendations. Some read “fire and flame.” The present translation assumes an emendation to “his attendant” (יו in the Hebrew text being virtually dittographic).
sn In Ugaritic mythology Yam’s messengers appear as flaming fire before the assembly of the gods. See G. R. Driver, Canaanite Myths and Legends, 42.