Psalms 6:7

6:7 My eyes ¹  grow dim ²  from suffering;

they grow weak ³  because of all my enemies. ⁴ 

Psalms 69:24

69:24 Pour out your judgment ⁵  on them!

May your raging anger ⁶  overtake them!

Psalms 78:45-46

78:45 He sent swarms of biting insects against them, ⁷ 

as well as frogs that overran their land. ⁸ 

78:46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper,

the fruit of their labor to the locust.

[6:7]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text has the singular “eye” here.

[6:7]  ² tn Or perhaps, “are swollen.”

[6:7]  ³ tn Or perhaps, “grow old.”

[6:7]  ⁴ sn In his weakened condition the psalmist is vulnerable to the taunts and threats of his enemies.

[69:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “anger.” “Anger” here refers metonymically to divine judgment, which is the practical effect of God’s anger.

[69:24]  ⁶ 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.

[78:45]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he sent an insect swarm against them and it devoured them.”

[78:45]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and a swarm of frogs and it destroyed them.”