108:5 Rise up 1 above the sky, O God!
May your splendor cover the whole earth! 2
108:6 Deliver by your power 3 and answer me,
so that the ones you love may be safe. 4
1 tn Or “be exalted.”
2 tn Heb “over all the earth [be] your splendor.” Though no verb appears, the tone of the statement is a prayer or wish. (Note the imperative form in the preceding line.)
3 tn Heb “right hand.”
4 tn Or “may be rescued.” The lines are actually reversed in the Hebrew text: “So that the ones you love may be rescued, deliver by your power and answer me.”