Psalms 37:8

37:8 Do not be angry and frustrated! ¹ 

Do not fret! That only leads to trouble!

Psalms 69:24

69:24 Pour out your judgment ²  on them!

May your raging anger ³  overtake them!

Psalms 85:3

85:3 You withdrew all your fury;

you turned back from your raging anger. ⁴ 

Psalms 85:5

85:5 Will you stay mad at us forever?

Will you remain angry throughout future generations? ⁵ 

Psalms 95:11

95:11 So I made a vow in my anger,

‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’” ⁶ 

Psalms 103:8

103:8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful;

he is patient ⁷  and demonstrates great loyal love. ⁸ 

Psalms 106:40

106:40 So the Lord was angry with his people ⁹ 

and despised the people who belong to him. ¹⁰ 

Psalms 110:5

110:5 O sovereign Lord, ¹¹  at your right hand

he strikes down ¹²  kings in the day he unleashes his anger. ¹³ 

Psalms 115:6

115:6 ears, but cannot hear,

noses, but cannot smell,

Psalms 145:8

145:8 The Lord is merciful and compassionate;

he is patient ¹⁴  and demonstrates great loyal love. ¹⁵ 

[37:8]  ¹ tn Heb “Refrain from anger! Abandon rage!”

[69:24]  ² tn Heb “anger.” “Anger” here refers metonymically to divine judgment, which is the practical effect of God’s anger.

[69:24]  ³ tn Heb “the rage of your anger.” The phrase “rage of your anger” employs an appositional genitive. Synonyms are joined in a construct relationship to emphasize the single idea. For a detailed discussion of the grammatical point with numerous examples, see Y. Avishur, “Pairs of Synonymous Words in the Construct State (and in Appositional Hendiadys) in Biblical Hebrew,” Semitics 2 (1971), 17-81.

[85:3]  ³ tn Heb “the rage of your anger.” The phrase “rage of your anger” employs an appositional genitive. Synonyms are joined in a construct relationship to emphasize the single idea. For a detailed discussion of the grammatical point with numerous examples, see Y. Avishur, “Pairs of Synonymous Words in the Construct State (and in Appositional Hendiadys) in Biblical Hebrew,” Semitics 2 (1971): 17-81. See Pss 69:24; 78:49.

[85:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “Will your anger stretch to a generation and a generation?”

[95:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “my resting place.” The promised land of Canaan is here viewed metaphorically as a place of rest for God’s people, who are compared to sheep (see v. 7).

[103:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “slow to anger” (see Ps 86:15).

[103:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “and great of loyal love” (see Ps 86:15).

[106:40]  ⁷ tn Heb “the anger of the Lord burned against his people.”

[106:40]  ⁸ tn Heb “his inheritance.”

[110:5]  ⁸ tn As pointed in the Hebrew text, this title refers to God (many medieval Hebrew mss read יְהוָה, yehveh, “Lord” here). The present translation assumes that the psalmist here addresses the Lord as he celebrates what the king is able to accomplish while positioned at God’s “right hand.” According to this view the king is the subject of the third person verb forms in vv. 5b-7. (2) Another option is to understand the king as the addressee (as in vv. 2-3). In this case “the Lord” is the subject of the third person verbs throughout vv. 5-7 and is depicted as a warrior in a very anthropomorphic manner. In this case the Lord is pictured as being at the psalmist’s right hand (just the opposite of v. 1). See Pss 16:8; 121:5. (3) A third option is to revocalize אֲדֹנָי (’adonay, “Lord”) as אֲדֹנִי (’adoniy, “my lord”; see v. 1). In this case one may translate, “My lord, at his [God’s] right hand, strikes down.” In this case the king is the subject of the third person verbs in vv. 5b-7.

[110:5]  ⁹ tn The perfect verbal forms in vv. 5-6 are understood here as descriptive-dramatic or as generalizing. Another option is to take them as rhetorical. In this case the psalmist describes anticipated events as if they had already taken place.

[110:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in the day of his anger.”

[145:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “slow to anger” (see Pss 86:15; 103:8).

[145:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and great of loyal love” (see Pss 86:15; 103:8).