Psalms 69:24

69:24 Pour out your judgment on them!

May your raging anger overtake them!


tn Heb “anger.” “Anger” here refers metonymically to divine judgment, which is the practical effect of God’s anger.

tn Heb “the rage of your anger.” The phrase “rage of your anger” employs an appositional genitive. Synonyms are joined in a construct relationship to emphasize the single idea. For a detailed discussion of the grammatical point with numerous examples, see Y. Avishur, “Pairs of Synonymous Words in the Construct State (and in Appositional Hendiadys) in Biblical Hebrew,” Semitics 2 (1971), 17-81.