Article August 5, 1939 Issue

Bible Notes

"Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning" (Ps. 143:8)—Moffatt offers the rendering: "Satisfy me with the dawn of thy love;" while Smith prefers to read: "Let me hear of thy kindness in the morning;" and Kent has: "Make me early hear of thy lovingkindness."

"I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed" (Isa. 43:12)—The verb here translated "I have shewed" means literally "I have caused ... to hear," and so, "I have proclaimed" or "made proclamation" (cf. Brown, Driver, and Briggs: Hebrew Lexicon, p. 1034). Smith translates: "I foretold, and I saved, I announced;" while Moffatt has: " 'Twas I who promised to save, I who fulfilled what I foretold."

"His soul shall dwell at ease" (Ps. 25:13)—The word which is here rendered "ease" is the Hebrew "tob," which possesses a wide variety of meanings, including "welfare, prosperity, happiness, benefit, good things;" while the phrase translated "his soul" was very often equivalent in Hebrew idiom to "he himself" or even "he." In consequence, Dr. Briggs suggests the rendering: "He himself will dwell in prosperity" (Commentary on Psalms: Vol. I, p. 220). Smith offers the translation: "He will dwell in good times;" while Moffatt has: "His own life shall continue prosperous."

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