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You are awesome! Yes, you!
Who can withstand your intense anger?[a]
From heaven you announced what their punishment would be.[b]
The earth[c] was afraid and silent
when God arose to execute judgment,
and to deliver all the oppressed of the earth. (Selah)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 76:7 tc Heb “and who can stand before you from the time of your anger?” The Hebrew expression מֵאָז (meʾaz, “from the time of”) is better emended to מֵאֹז (meʾoz, “from [i.e., “because of”] the strength of your anger”; see Ps 90:11).
  2. Psalm 76:8 tn Heb “a [legal] decision,” or “sentence.”
  3. Psalm 76:8 tn “The earth” stands here by metonymy for its inhabitants.