Psalms 148:10

148:10 you animals and all you cattle,

you creeping things and birds,

Psalms 8:8

8:8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea

and everything that moves through the currents ¹  of the seas.

Psalms 102:7

102:7 I stay awake; ² 

I am like a solitary bird on a roof.

Psalms 104:17

104:17 where the birds make nests,

near the evergreens in which the herons live. ³ 

Psalms 11:1

Psalm 11 ⁴ 

For the music director; by David.

11:1 In the Lord I have taken shelter. ⁵ 

How can you say to me, ⁶ 

“Flee to a mountain like a bird! ⁷ 

Psalms 124:7

124:7 We escaped with our lives, ⁸  like a bird from a hunter’s snare.

The snare broke, and we escaped.

Psalms 84:3

84:3 Even the birds find a home there,

and the swallow ⁹  builds a nest,

where she can protect her young ¹⁰ 

near your altars, O Lord who rules over all,

my king and my God.

[8:8]  ¹ tn Heb “paths.”

[102:7]  ¹ tn This probably refers to the psalmist’s inability to sleep. Another option is to translate, “I keep watch,” in which case it might refer to watching for a response from the Lord (see vv. 1-2).

[104:17]  ¹ tn Heb “[the] heron [in the] evergreens [is] its home.”

[11:1]  ¹ sn Psalm 11. The psalmist rejects the advice to flee from his dangerous enemies. Instead he affirms his confidence in God’s just character and calls down judgment on evildoers.

[11:1]  ² tn The Hebrew perfect verbal form probably refers here to a completed action with continuing results.

[11:1]  ³ tn The pronominal suffix attached to נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) is equivalent to a personal pronoun. See Ps 6:3.

[11:1]  ⁴ tc The MT is corrupt here. The Kethib (consonantal text) reads: “flee [masculine plural!] to your [masculine plural!] mountain, bird.” The Qere (marginal reading) has “flee” in a feminine singular form, agreeing grammatically with the addressee, the feminine noun “bird.” Rather than being a second masculine plural pronominal suffix, the ending כֶם- (-khem) attached to “mountain” is better interpreted as a second feminine singular pronominal suffix followed by an enclitic mem (ם). “Bird” may be taken as vocative (“O bird”) or as an adverbial accusative of manner (“like a bird”). Either way, the psalmist’s advisers compare him to a helpless bird whose only option in the face of danger is to fly away to an inaccessible place.

[124:7]  ¹ tn Heb “our life escaped.”

[84:3]  ¹ tn The word translated “swallow” occurs only here and in Prov 26:2.

[84:3]  ² tn Heb “even a bird finds a home, and a swallow a nest for herself, [in] which she places her young.”