Psalms 65:9

Context

65:9 You visit the earth and give it rain;¹

you make it rich and fertile²

with overflowing streams full of water.³

You provide grain for them,⁴

for you prepare the earth to yield its crops.⁵

Psalms 75:8

Context

75:8 For the Lord holds in his hand a cup full

of foaming wine mixed with spices,⁶

and pours it out.⁷

Surely all the wicked of the earth

will slurp it up and drink it to its very last drop.”⁸

Psalms 127:5

Context

127:5 How blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them!

They will not be put to shame⁹ when they confront¹⁰ enemies at the city gate.

[65:9] ¹tn The verb form is a Polel from שׁוּק (shuq, “be abundant”), a verb which appears only here and in Joel 2:24 and 3:13, where it is used in the Hiphil stem and means “overflow.”

[65:9] ²tn Heb “you greatly enrich it.”

[65:9] ³tn Heb “[with] a channel of God full of water.” The divine name is probably used here in a superlative sense to depict a very deep stream (“a stream fit for God,” as it were).

[65:9] ⁴tn The pronoun apparently refers to the people of the earth, mentioned in v. 8.

[65:9] ⁵tn Heb “for thus [referring to the provision of rain described in the first half of the verse] you prepare it.” The third feminine singular pronominal suffix attached to the verb “prepare” refers back to the “earth,” which is a feminine noun with regard to grammatical form.

[75:8] ⁶tn Heb “for a cup [is] in the hand of the Lord, and wine foams, it is full of a spiced drink.” The noun מֶסֶךְ (mesekh) refers to a “mixture” of wine and spices.

[75:8] ⁷tn Heb “and he pours out from this.”

[75:8] ⁸tn Heb “surely its dregs they slurp up and drink, all the wicked of the earth.”

[127:5] ¹¹tn Being “put to shame” is here metonymic for being defeated, probably in a legal context, as the reference to the city gate suggests. One could be humiliated (Ps 69:12) or deprived of justice (Amos 5:12) at the gate, but with strong sons to defend the family interests this was less likely to happen.

[127:5] ¹²tn Heb “speak with.”