Psalms 105:25

105:25 He caused them ¹  to hate his people,

and to mistreat ²  his servants.

Psalms 105:29

105:29 He turned their water into blood,

and killed their fish.

Psalms 66:6

66:6 He turned the sea into dry land; ³ 

they passed through the river on foot. ⁴ 

Let us rejoice in him there! ⁵ 

[105:25]  ¹ tn Heb “their heart.”

[105:25]  ² tn Or “to deal deceptively.” The Hitpael of נָכַל (nakhal) occurs only here and in Gen 37:18, where it is used of Joseph’s brothers “plotting” to kill him.

[66:6]  ³ sn He turned the sea into dry land. The psalmist alludes to Israel’s crossing the Red Sea (Exod 14:21).

[66:6]  ⁴ tn Because of the reference to “the river,” some understand this as an allusion to Israel’s crossing the Jordan River. However, the Hebrew term נָהָר (nahad) does not always refer to a “river” in the technical sense; it can be used of sea currents (see Jonah 2:4). So this line may also refer to the Red Sea crossing (cf. NEB).

[66:6]  ⁵ tn The adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”) is used here, as often in poetic texts, to point “to a spot in which a scene is localized vividly in the imagination” (BDB 1027 s.v.).