Psalms 83:15

83:15 chase them with your gale winds,

and terrify ¹  them with your windstorm.

Psalms 107:25

107:25 He gave the order for a windstorm, ² 

and it stirred up the waves of the sea. ³ 

Psalms 107:29

107:29 He calmed the storm, ⁴ 

and the waves ⁵  grew silent.

Psalms 55:8

55:8 I will hurry off to a place that is safe

from the strong wind ⁶  and the gale.”

Psalms 148:8

148:8 O fire and hail, snow and clouds, ⁷ 

O stormy wind that carries out his orders, ⁸ 

[83:15]  ¹ tn The two imperfect verbal forms in v. 15 express the psalmist’s wish or prayer.

[107:25]  ² tn Heb “he spoke and caused to stand a stormy wind.”

[107:25]  ³ tn Heb “and it stirred up its [i.e., the sea’s, see v. 23] waves.”

[107:29]  ³ tn Heb “he raised [the] storm to calm.”

[107:29]  ⁴ tn Heb “their waves.” The antecedent of the third masculine plural pronominal suffix is not readily apparent, unless it refers back to “waters” in v. 23.

[55:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “[the] wind [that] sweeps away.” The verb סָעָה (sa’ah, “sweep away”) occurs only here in the OT (see H. R. Cohen, Biblical Hapax Legomena [SBLDS], 120).

[148:8]  ⁵ tn In Ps 119:83 the noun refers to “smoke,” but here, where the elements of nature are addressed, the clouds, which resemble smoke, are probably in view.

[148:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “[that] does his word.”