83:15 chase them with your gale winds,
and terrify 1 them with your windstorm.
107:25 He gave the order for a windstorm, 2
and it stirred up the waves of the sea. 3
107:29 He calmed the storm, 4
and the waves 5 grew silent.
55:8 I will hurry off to a place that is safe
from the strong wind 6 and the gale.”
148:8 O fire and hail, snow and clouds, 7
O stormy wind that carries out his orders, 8
1 tn The two imperfect verbal forms in v. 15 express the psalmist’s wish or prayer.
2 tn Heb “he spoke and caused to stand a stormy wind.”
3 tn Heb “and it stirred up its [i.e., the sea’s, see v. 23] waves.”
3 tn Heb “he raised [the] storm to calm.”
4 tn Heb “their waves.” The antecedent of the third masculine plural pronominal suffix is not readily apparent, unless it refers back to “waters” in v. 23.
4 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).
5 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.
6 tn Heb “[that] does his word.”