50:11 I keep track of 1 every bird in the hills,
and the insects 2 of the field are mine.
78:27 He rained down meat on them like dust,
birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores. 3
104:12 The birds of the sky live beside them;
they chirp among the bushes. 4
1 tn Heb “I know.”
2 tn The precise referent of the Hebrew word, which occurs only here and in Ps 80:13, is uncertain. Aramaic, Arabic and Akkadian cognates refer to insects, such as locusts or crickets.
3 tn Heb “and like the sand of the seas winged birds.”
5 tn Heb “among the thick foliage they give a sound.”