Psalms 106:14

106:14 In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving ¹  for meat; ² 

they challenged God ³  in the desert.

Psalms 132:13-14

132:13 Certainly ⁴  the Lord has chosen Zion;

he decided to make it his home. ⁵ 

132:14 He said, ⁶  “This will be my resting place forever;

I will live here, for I have chosen it. ⁷ 

Psalms 45:11

45:11 Then ⁸  the king will be attracted by ⁹  your beauty.

After all, he is your master! Submit ¹⁰  to him! ¹¹ 

[106:14]  ¹ sn They had an insatiable craving. This is described in Num 11:4-35.

[106:14]  ² tn Heb “they craved [with] a craving.”

[106:14]  ³ tn Heb “they tested God.”

[132:13]  ⁴ tn Or “for.”

[132:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “he desired it for his dwelling place.”

[132:14]  ⁷ tn The words “he said” are added in the translation to clarify that what follows are the Lord’s words.

[132:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “for I desired it.”

[45:11]  ¹⁰ tn After the preceding imperatives, the jussive verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive is best understood as introducing a purpose (“so that the king might desire your beauty”) or result clause (see the present translation and cf. also NASB). The point seems to be this: The bride might tend to be homesick, which in turn might cause her to mourn and diminish her attractiveness. She needs to overcome this temptation to unhappiness and enter into the marriage with joy. Then the king will be drawn to her natural beauty.

[45:11]  ¹¹ tn Or “desire.”

[45:11]  ¹² tn Or “bow down.”

[45:11]  ¹³ sn Submit to him. The poet here makes the point that the young bride is obligated to bring pleasure to her new husband. Though a foreign concept to modern western culture, this was accepted as the cultural norm in the psalmist’s day.