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Psalms 50:2-3

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50:2 From Zion, the most beautiful of all places, 1 

God comes in splendor. 2 

50:3 Our God approaches and is not silent; 3 

consuming fire goes ahead of him

and all around him a storm rages. 4 

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 According to GKC 322 §109.e, the jussive (note the negative particle אַל, ’al) is used rhetorically here “to express the conviction that something cannot or should not happen.”

4 tn Heb “fire before him devours, and around him it is very stormy.”



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