118:26 May the one who comes in the name of the Lord 1 be blessed!
We will pronounce blessings on you 2 in the Lord’s temple. 3
2:4 Now at that very moment, 4 Boaz arrived from Bethlehem 5 and greeted 6 the harvesters, “May the Lord be with you!” They replied, 7 “May the Lord bless you!”
1 sn The people refer here to the psalmist, who enters the
2 tn The pronominal suffix is second masculine plural, but the final mem (ם) is probably dittographic (note the mem [מ] at the beginning of the following form) or enclitic, in which case the suffix may be taken as second masculine singular, referring to the psalmist.
3 tn Heb “from the house of the
4 tn Heb “and look”; NIV, NRSV “Just then.” The narrator invites the audience into the story, describing Boaz’s arrival as if it were witnessed by the audience.
5 map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.
6 tn Heb “said to.” Context indicates that the following expression is a greeting, the first thing Boaz says to his workers.
7 tn Heb “said to him.” For stylistic reasons “replied” is used in the present translation.