Mazmur 104:32

104:32 He looks down on the earth and it shakes;

he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.

Mazmur 144:5

144:5 O Lord, make the sky sink ¹  and come down! ² 

Touch the mountains and make them smolder! ³ 

Mazmur 105:15

105:15 saying, ⁴  “Don’t touch my chosen ⁵  ones!

Don’t harm my prophets!”

Mazmur 88:3

88:3 For my life ⁶  is filled with troubles

and I am ready to enter Sheol. ⁷ 

Mazmur 91:12

91:12 They will lift you up in their hands,

so you will not slip and fall on a stone. ⁸ 

Mazmur 107:18

107:18 They lost their appetite for all food, ⁹ 

and they drew near the gates of death.

Mazmur 115:7

115:7 hands, but cannot touch,

feet, but cannot walk.

They cannot even clear their throats. ¹⁰ 

Mazmur 119:165

119:165 Those who love your law are completely secure; ¹¹ 

nothing causes them to stumble. ¹² 

Mazmur 116:8

116:8 Yes, ¹³  Lord, ¹⁴  you rescued my life from death,

and kept my feet from stumbling.

[144:5]  ¹ tn The Hebrew verb נָטָה (natah) can carry the sense “to [cause to] bend; to [cause to] bow down.” For example, Gen 49:15 pictures Issachar as a donkey that “bends” its shoulder or back under a burden. Here the Lord causes the sky, pictured as a dome or vault, to sink down as he descends in the storm. See Ps 18:9.

[144:5]  ² tn Heb “so you might come down.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose after the preceding imperative. The same type of construction is utilized in v. 6.

[144:5]  ³ tn Heb “so they might smolder.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose after the preceding imperative.

[105:15]  ⁴ tn The word “saying” is supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

[105:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “anointed.”

[88:3]  ⁶ tn Or “my soul.”

[88:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “and my life approaches Sheol.”

[91:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “so your foot will not strike a stone.”

[107:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “all food their appetite loathed.”

[115:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they cannot mutter in their throats.” Verse 5a refers to speaking, v. 7c to inarticulate sounds made in the throat (see M. Dahood, Psalms [AB], 3:140-41).

[119:165]  ¹¹ tn Heb “great peace [is] to the lovers of your law.”

[119:165]  ¹² tn Heb “and there is no stumbling to them.”

[116:8]  ¹³ tn Or “for.”

[116:8]  ¹⁴ tn “Lord” is supplied here in the translation for clarification.