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Psalm 104:15-17
New English Translation
Psalm 104:15-17
New English Translation
15 as well as wine that makes people glad,[a]
and olive oil to make their faces shine,[b]
as well as bread that sustains them.[c]
16 The trees of the Lord[d] receive all the rain they need,[e]
the cedars of Lebanon that he planted,
17 where the birds make nests,
near the evergreens in which the herons live.[f]
Footnotes
- Psalm 104:15 tn Heb “and wine [that] makes the heart of man happy.”
- Psalm 104:15 tn Heb “to make [the] face shine from oil.” The Hebrew verb צָהַל (tsahal, “to shine”) occurs only here in the OT. It appears to be an alternate form of צָהַר (tsahar), a derivative from צָהָרִים (tsaharim, “noon”).
- Psalm 104:15 tn Heb “and food [that] sustains the heart of man.”
- Psalm 104:16 sn The trees of the Lord are the cedars of Lebanon (see the next line), which are viewed as special because of their great size and grandeur. The Lebanon forest was viewed elsewhere in the OT as the “garden of God” (see Ezek 31:8).
- Psalm 104:16 tn Heb “are satisfied,” which means here that they receive abundant rain (see v. 13).
- Psalm 104:17 tn Heb “[the] heron [in the] evergreens [is] its home.”sn The cedars and evergreens of the Lebanon forest are frequently associated (see, for example, 2 Chr 2:8; Isa 14:8; 37:24; Ezek 31:8).
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