LIII. This Psalm is a variation from Psalms 14. Which was the original, or whether both are not corruptions of some lost original, are questions involving minute comparisons and examinations of the Hebrew text, and possibly do not admit of satisfactory answers. Instead of “Jehovah” in Psalms 14; Ps... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. — The conjunction is wanting in Psalms 14:1. INIQUITY. — Instead of the general term, “doings,” in Psalms 14, as if the adapter of the Psalm felt that a word applicable to good as well as evil was not strong enough to express the hideousness of the profanity.... [ Continue Reading ]
There are two unimportant variations from Psalms 14 here: “every one,” instead of “the whole,” and “gone back” (_sag_) for “gone aside” (_sar_).... [ Continue Reading ]
Notice the omission of the expressive “all” found in Psalms 14... [ Continue Reading ]
WHERE NO FEAR WAS. — This — the most interesting variation from Psalms 14 — appears plainly to have been inserted to bring the Psalm into harmony with some circumstance belonging to the time for which it was adapted, but to which we have no clue. As to the choice among the various explanations that... [ Continue Reading ]