Mazmur 42:3

42:3 I cannot eat, I weep day and night; ¹ 

all day long they say to me, ²  “Where is your God?”

Mazmur 104:14-15

104:14 He provides grass ³  for the cattle,

and crops for people to cultivate, ⁴ 

so they can produce food from the ground, ⁵ 

104:15 as well as wine that makes people feel so good, ⁶ 

and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, ⁷ 

as well as food that sustains people’s lives. ⁸ 

Mazmur 104:28

104:28 You give food to them and they receive it;

you open your hand and they are filled with food. ⁹ 

Mazmur 111:5

111:5 He gives ¹⁰  food to his faithful followers; ¹¹ 

he always remembers his covenant. ¹² 

[42:3]  ¹ tn Heb “My tears have become my food day and night.”

[42:3]  ² tn Heb “when [they] say to me all the day.” The suffixed third masculine plural pronoun may have been accidentally omitted from the infinitive בֶּאֱמֹר (be’ÿmor, “when [they] say”). Note the term בְּאָמְרָם (bÿ’omram, “when they say”) in v. 10.

[104:14]  ³ tn Heb “causes the grass to sprout up.”

[104:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “for the service of man” (see Gen 2:5).

[104:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “to cause food to come out from the earth.”

[104:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “and wine [that] makes the heart of man happy.”

[104:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “to make [the] face shine from oil.” The Hebrew verb צָהַל (tsahal, “to shine”) occurs only here in the OT. It appears to be an alternate form of צָהַר (tsahar), a derivative from צָהָרִים (tsaharim, “noon”).

[104:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “and food [that] sustains the heart of man.”

[104:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “they are satisfied [with] good.”

[111:5]  ¹⁰ tn Or “gave,” if the events of the exodus and conquest period (see v. 6, 9) are primarily in view.

[111:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “those who fear him.”

[111:5]  ¹² tn Or “he remembers his covenant forever” (see Ps 105:8).