78:49 His raging anger lashed out against them, 1
He sent fury, rage, and trouble
as messengers who bring disaster. 2
103:16 but when the hot wind 3 blows by, it disappears,
and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.
1 tn Heb “he sent against them the rage of his anger.” The phrase “rage of his 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.
2 tn Heb “fury and indignation and trouble, a sending of messengers of disaster.”
3 tn Heb “[the] wind.” The word “hot” is supplied in the translation for clarification.