55:8 I will hurry off to a place that is safe
from the strong wind 1 and the gale.”
148:8 O fire and hail, snow and clouds, 2
O stormy wind that carries out his orders, 3
1 tn Heb “[the] wind [that] sweeps away.” The verb סָעָה (sa’ah, “sweep away”) occurs only here in the OT (see H. R. Cohen, Biblical Hapax Legomena [SBLDS], 120).
2 tn In Ps 119:83 the noun refers to “smoke,” but here, where the elements of nature are addressed, the clouds, which resemble smoke, are probably in view.
3 tn Heb “[that] does his word.”