Mazmur 79:6

79:6 Pour out your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you, ¹ 

on the kingdoms that do not pray to you! ² 

Mazmur 84:3

84:3 Even the birds find a home there,

and the swallow ³  builds a nest,

where she can protect her young ⁴ 

near your altars, O Lord who rules over all,

my king and my God.

[79:6]  ¹ tn Heb “which do not know you.” Here the Hebrew term “know” means “acknowledge the authority of.”

[79:6]  ² sn The kingdoms that do not pray to you. The people of these kingdoms pray to other gods, not the Lord, because they do not recognize his authority over them.

[84:3]  ³ tn The word translated “swallow” occurs only here and in Prov 26:2.

[84:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “even a bird finds a home, and a swallow a nest for herself, [in] which she places her young.”

[84:3]  sn The psalmist here romanticizes the temple as a place of refuge and safety. As he thinks of the birds nesting near its roof, he envisions them finding protection in God’s presence.