Mazmur 105:40

105:40 They asked for food, ¹  and he sent quails;

he satisfied them with food from the sky. ² 

Mazmur 78:45

78:45 He sent swarms of biting insects against them, ³ 

as well as frogs that overran their land. ⁴ 

Mazmur 105:16

105:16 He called down a famine upon the earth;

he cut off all the food supply. ⁵ 

Mazmur 107:25

107:25 He gave the order for a windstorm, ⁶ 

and it stirred up the waves of the sea. ⁷ 

[105:40]  ¹ tn Heb “he [i.e., his people] asked.” The singular form should probably be emended to a plural שָׁאֲלוּ (sha’alu, “they asked”), the vav (ו) having fallen off by haplography (note the vav at the beginning of the following form).

[105:40]  ² tn Or “bread of heaven.” The reference is to manna (see Exod 16:4, 13-15).

[78:45]  ³ tn Heb “and he sent an insect swarm against them and it devoured them.”

[78:45]  ⁴ tn Heb “and a swarm of frogs and it destroyed them.”

[105:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “and every staff of food he broke.” The psalmist refers to the famine that occurred in Joseph’s time (see v. 17 and Gen 41:53-57).

[107:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “he spoke and caused to stand a stormy wind.”

[107:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “and it stirred up its [i.e., the sea’s, see v. 23] waves.”