Friday, April 17, 2026

Robert Alter on Psalm 74:20

  

with groans of outrage. The Masoretic Text seems to say, “with habitations of outrage,” which sounds odd coming after “dark places of earth.” The Septuagint reads—instead of neʾot, “habitations”—ʾenkot, “groans,” and that reading is adopted here. (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 3:181)

 

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