Mazmur 18:45

18:45 foreigners lose their courage; ¹ 

they shake with fear ²  as they leave ³  their strongholds. ⁴ 

Mazmur 75:3

75:3 When the earth and all its inhabitants dissolve in fear, ⁵ 

I make its pillars secure.” ⁶  (Selah)

Mazmur 78:58

78:58 They made him angry with their pagan shrines, ⁷ 

and made him jealous with their idols.

Mazmur 148:6

148:6 He established them so they would endure; ⁸ 

he issued a decree that will not be revoked. ⁹ 

[18:45]  ¹ tn Heb “wither, wear out.”

[18:45]  ² tn The meaning of חָרַג (kharag, “shake”) is established on the basis of cognates in Arabic and Aramaic. 2 Sam 22:46 reads חָגַר (khagar), which might mean here, “[they] come limping” (on the basis of a cognate in postbiblical Hebrew). The normal meaning for חָגַר (“gird”) makes little sense here.

[18:45]  ³ tn Heb “from.”

[18:45]  ⁴ tn Heb “their prisons.” The besieged cities of the foreigners are compared to prisons.

[75:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “melt.”

[75:3]  ⁶ tn The statement is understood in a generalizing sense; God typically prevents the world from being overrun by chaos. One could take this as referring to an anticipated event, “I will make its pillars secure.”

[78:58]  ⁷ tn Traditionally, “high places.”

[148:6]  ⁸ tn Or “forever and ever.”

[148:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “and it will not pass away.”