5:8 (But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion;
he can turn the darkness into morning
and daylight 1 into night.
He summons the water of the seas
and pours it out on the earth’s surface.
The Lord is his name!
5:9 He flashes 2 destruction down upon the strong
so that destruction overwhelms 3 the fortified places.)
1 tn Heb “darkens the day into night.”
2 tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew verb בָּלַג (balag, translated here “flashes”) is uncertain.
3 tn Heb “comes upon.” Many prefer to repoint the verb as Hiphil and translate, “he brings destruction upon the fortified places.”