Psalms 85:3

85:3 You withdrew all your fury;

you turned back from your raging anger.

Psalms 102:10

102:10 because of your anger and raging fury.

Indeed, you pick me up and throw me away.


tn Heb “the rage of your anger.” The phrase “rage of your anger” employs an appositional genitive. Synonyms are joined in a construct relationship to emphasize the single idea. For a detailed discussion of the grammatical point with numerous examples, see Y. Avishur, “Pairs of Synonymous Words in the Construct State (and in Appositional Hendiadys) in Biblical Hebrew,” Semitics 2 (1971): 17-81. See Pss 69:24; 78:49.

tn Or “for.”