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11 Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger?[a]
Your raging fury causes people to fear you.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 90:11 tn Heb “Who knows the strength of your anger?”
  2. Psalm 90:11 tc Heb “and like your fear [is] your raging fury.” Perhaps one should emend וּכְיִרְאָתְךָ (ukheyirʾatekha, “and like your fear”) to יִרְאָתְךְ (yirʾatekha, “your fear”), removing the כ (kaf) as dittography of the kaf ending the previous word. In this case the psalmist asserts “your fear [is] your raging fury,” that is, your raging fury is what causes others to fear you. The suffix on “fear” is understood as objective.

11 If only we knew the power of your anger!
    Your wrath(A) is as great as the fear that is your due.(B)

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