8:27 “God does not really live on the earth! 1 Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!
115:16 The heavens belong to the Lord, 7
but the earth he has given to mankind. 8
148:4 Praise him, O highest heaven,
and you waters above the sky! 9
66:1 This is what the Lord says:
“The heavens are my throne
and the earth is my footstool.
Where then is the house you will build for me?
Where is the place where I will rest?
1 tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.
2 sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.
3 sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.
4 tn Heb “Cedar was inside the temple, carvings of gourds (i.e., gourd-shaped ornaments) and opened flowers; the whole was cedar, no stone was seen.”
5 tn Heb “the heavens of the heavens.”
6 tn Heb “all their host.”
7 tn Heb “the heavens [are] heavens to the
8 tn Heb “to the sons of man.”
9 sn The “water” mentioned here corresponds to the “waters above” mentioned in Gen 1:7. See also Ps 104:3. For a discussion of the picture envisioned by the psalmist, see L. I. J. Stadelmann, The Hebrew Conception of the World, 47.