Psalms 72:5

72:5 People will fear ¹  you ²  as long as the sun and moon remain in the sky,

for generation after generation. ³ 

Psalms 89:36

89:36 His dynasty will last forever. ⁴ 

His throne will endure before me, like the sun, ⁵ 

Psalms 113:3

113:3 From east to west ⁶ 

the Lord’s name is deserving of praise.

Psalms 136:8

136:8 the sun to rule by day,

for his loyal love endures,

Psalms 148:3

148:3 Praise him, O sun and moon!

Praise him, all you shiny stars! ⁷ 

[72:5]  ¹ tn In this context “fear” probably means “to demonstrate respect for the Lord’s power and authority by worshiping him and obeying his commandments.” See Ps 33:8. Some interpreters, with the support of the LXX, prefer to read וְיַאֲרִיךְ (vÿ’a’arikh, “and he [the king in this case] will prolong [days]”), that is, “will live a long time” (cf. NIV, NRSV).

[72:5]  ² tn God is the addressee (see vv. 1-2).

[72:5]  ³ tn Heb “with [the] sun, and before [the] moon [for] a generation, generations.” The rare expression דּוֹר דּוֹרִים (dor dorim, “generation, generations”) occurs only here, in Ps 102:24, and in Isa 51:8.

[89:36]  ⁴ tn Heb “his offspring forever will be.”

[89:36]  ⁵ tn Heb “and his throne like the sun before me.”

[113:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “from the rising of the sun to its setting.” The extent is not temporal (“from sunrise to sunset”) but spatial (“from the place where the sun rises [the east] to the place where it sets [the west].” In the phenomenological language of OT cosmology, the sun was described as rising in the east and setting in the west.

[148:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “stars of light.”