Sunday, February 23, 2025

Psalm 145:5

A couple months ago, I read Psalm 145 in the ESV and noticed some significance in the structure of verse 5:  "On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate."  The structure is inverted so that the objects on which the Psalmist meditates come first in the sentence, and to some degree, this primary position matches the importance they hold for him.  In English, "splendor" and "works" are both objects of prepositions, but if I'm not mistaken, in the Hebrew, which also has this structure, they're simply direct objects:
הֲדַר כְּבוֹד הוֹדֶךָ וְדִבְרֵי נִפְלְאוֹתֶיךָ אָשִֽׂיחָה׃