Text -- Psalms 78:49 (NET)

78:49 His raging anger lashed out against them, He sent fury, rage, and trouble as messengers who bring disaster.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 78:49

¹ tn Heb “he sent against them the rage of his anger.” The phrase “rage of his anger” employs an appositional genitive. Synonyms are joined in a construct relationship to emphasize the single idea. For a detailed discussion of the grammatical point with numerous examples, see Y. Avishur, “Pairs of Synonymous Words in the Construct State (and in Appositional Hendiadys) in Biblical Hebrew,” Semitics 2 (1971): 17-81.

² tn Heb “fury and indignation and trouble, a sending of messengers of disaster.”