Psalms 105:21

105:21 He put him in charge of his palace, ¹ 

and made him manager of all his property,

Psalms 74:4

74:4 Your enemies roar ²  in the middle of your sanctuary; ³ 

they set up their battle flags. ⁴ 

Psalms 105:27

105:27 They executed his miraculous signs among them, ⁵ 

and his amazing deeds in the land of Ham.

Psalms 81:5

81:5 He decreed it as a regulation in Joseph,

when he attacked the land of Egypt. ⁶ 

I heard a voice I did not recognize. ⁷ 

[105:21]  ¹ tn Heb “he made him master of his house.”

[74:4]  ² tn This verb is often used of a lion’s roar, so the psalmist may be comparing the enemy to a raging, devouring lion.

[74:4]  ³ tn Heb “your meeting place.”

[74:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “they set up their banners [as] banners.” The Hebrew noun אוֹת (’ot, “sign”) here refers to the enemy army’s battle flags and banners (see Num 2:12).

[105:27]  ³ tn Apparently the pronoun refers to “his servants” (i.e., the Israelites, see v. 25).

[81:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “in his going out against the land of Egypt.” This apparently refers to the general time period of Israel’s exodus from Egypt. The LXX reads, “from Egypt,” in which case “Joseph” (see the preceding line) would be the subject of the verb, “when he [Joseph = Israel] left Egypt.”

[81:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “a lip I did not know, I heard.” Here the term “lip” probably stands for speech or a voice. Apparently the psalmist speaks here and refers to God’s voice, whose speech is recorded in the following verses.