37:26 All day long he shows compassion and lends to others, 1
and his children 2 are blessed.
105:16 He called down a famine upon the earth;
he cut off all the food supply. 3
105:31 He ordered flies to come; 4
gnats invaded their whole territory.
106:31 This brought him a reward,
an eternal gift. 5
115:8 Those who make them will end up 6 like them,
as will everyone who trusts in them.
1 tn The active participles describe characteristic behavior.
2 tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”
3 tn Heb “and every staff of food he broke.” The psalmist refers to the famine that occurred in Joseph’s time (see v. 17 and Gen 41:53-57).
5 tn Heb “he spoke and flies came.”
7 tn Heb “and it was reckoned to him for righteousness, to a generation and a generation forever.” The verb חָשַׁב (khashav, “to reckon”) is collocated with צְדָקָה (tsÿdaqah, “righteousness”) only in Ps 106:31 and Gen 15:6, where God rewards Abram’s faith with a land grant.
9 tn Heb “will be.” Another option is to take the prefixed verbal form as a prayer, “may those who make them end up like them.”