“Grant, Almighty God, as the dulness and hardness of our flesh is so great that it is needful for us to be in various ways afflicted—oh grant that we patiently bear Thy chastisement, and under a deep feeling of sorrow flee to Thy mercy displayed to us in Christ, so that we depend not on the earthly blessings of this perishable life, but relying on Thy word go forward in the course of our calling, until at length we be gathered to that blessed rest which is laid up for us in heaven, through Christ our Lord. Amen.”[453] FOOTNOTES: [417] Above, pp. 126 ff. [418]‎ רגז nowhere in the Old Testament means _wrath_, but either roar and noise of thunder (Job xxxvii. 2) and of horsehoofs (xxxix. 24), or the raging of the wicked (iii. 17) or the commotion of fear (iii. 26; Isa. xiv. 3). [419] _Jehovah from Sinai hath come, And risen from Se‘ir upon them; He shone from Mount Paran, And broke from Meribah of Ḳadesh: From the South fire ... to them._ Deut. xxxiii. 2, slightly altered after the LXX. _South_: some form of ימין must be read to bring the line into parallel with the others; תימן, Teman, is from the same root. _Jehovah, in Thy going forth from Se’ir, In Thy marching from Edom’s field, Earth shook, yea, heaven dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water. Mountains flowed down before Jehovah, Yon Sinai at the face of the God of Israel._ Judges v. 4, 5. [420] Exod. xv. [421] In this case ver. 17 would be the only one that offered any reason for suspicion that it was an intrusion. [422]‎ תפלה, lit. Prayer, but used for Psalm: cf. Psalm cii. 1. [423] Sinker takes with this the first two words of next line: _I have trembled, O LORD, at Thy work_. [424]‎ תודע, Imp. Niph., after LXX. γνωσθήσῃ. The Hebrew has תּוֹדִיעַ, Hi., _make known_. The LXX. had a text of these verses which reduplicated them, and it has translated them very badly. [425]‎ רֹגֶז, _turmoil_, _noise_, as in Job: a meaning that offers a better parallel to _in the midst of the years_ than _wrath_, which the word also means. Davidson, however, thinks it more natural to understand the _wrath_ manifest at the coming of Jehovah to judgment. So Sinker. [426] Vulg. _ab Austro_, _from the South_. [427] LXX. adds κατασκίον δασέος, which seems the translation of a clause, perhaps a gloss, containing the name of Mount Se‘ir, as in the parallel descriptions of a theophany, Deut. xxiii. 2, Judg. v. 4. See Sinker, p. 45. [428] Wellhausen, reading שׂם for שׁם, translates _He made them_, etc. [429] So LXX. Heb. _and measures the earth_. [430] This is the only way of rendering the verse so as not to make it seem superfluous: so rendered it sums up and clenches the theophany from ver. 3 onwards; and a new strophe now begins. There is therefore no need to omit the verse, as Wellhausen does.