44:25 For we lie in the dirt,
with our bellies pressed to the ground. 1
78:27 He rained down meat on them like dust,
birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores. 2
103:14 For he knows what we are made of; 3
he realizes 4 we are made of clay. 5
1 tn Heb “for our being/life sinks down to the dirt, our belly clings to the earth.” The suffixed form of נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “being, life”) is often equivalent to a pronoun in poetic texts.
2 tn Heb “and like the sand of the seas winged birds.”
3 tn Heb “our form.”
4 tn Heb “remembers.”
5 tn Heb “we [are] clay.”