Mazmur 79:13

79:13 Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture,

will continually thank you. ¹ 

We will tell coming generations of your praiseworthy acts. ² 

Mazmur 100:3

100:3 Acknowledge that the Lord is God!

He made us and we belong to him; ³ 

we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

[79:13]  ¹ tn Or (hyperbolically) “will thank you forever.”

[79:13]  ² tn Heb “to a generation and a generation we will report your praise.” Here “praise” stands by metonymy for the mighty acts that prompt worship. Cf. Ps 9:14.

[100:3]  ³ tn The present translation (like most modern translations) follows the Qere (marginal reading), which reads literally, “and to him [are] we.” The Kethib (consonantal text) has “and not we.” The suffixed preposition לו (“to him”) was confused aurally with the negative particle לא because the two sound identical.