Mazmur 110:5
Konteks110:5 O sovereign Lord, 1 at your right hand
he strikes down 2 kings in the day he unleashes his anger. 3
Mazmur 6:1
KonteksFor the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments, according to the sheminith style; 5 a psalm of David.
6:1 Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger!
Do not discipline me in your raging fury! 6
[110:5] 1 tn As pointed in the Hebrew text, this title refers to God (many medieval Hebrew
[110:5] 2 tn The perfect verbal forms in vv. 5-6 are understood here as descriptive-dramatic or as generalizing. Another option is to take them as rhetorical. In this case the psalmist describes anticipated events as if they had already taken place.
[110:5] 3 tn Heb “in the day of his anger.”
[6:1] 4 sn Psalm 6. The psalmist begs the Lord to withdraw his anger and spare his life. Having received a positive response to his prayer, the psalmist then confronts his enemies and describes how they retreat.
[6:1] 5 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term שְׁמִינִית (shÿminit, “sheminith”) is uncertain; perhaps it refers to a particular style of music. See 1 Chr 15:21.
[6:1] 6 sn The implication is that the psalmist has sinned, causing God to discipline him by bringing a life-threatening illness upon him (see vv. 2-7).