Psalm 111 Discourse/Notes/ParticipantAnalysis
From Psalms: Layer by Layer
- v. 10: תְּהִלָּתוֹ "his praise" — YHWH or righteous person?
- The 3ms suffix on תְּהִלָּתוֹ might refer either to YHWH or to a person who fears YHWH and keeps his commands.
- The suffix probably refers to YHWH, who is the topic of the psalm and the referent of every other 3ms suffix. The correspondence between v. 10c and v. 3b and the inclusio of v. 1 (אוֹדֶה) and v. 10 (תְּהִלָּתוֹ) also support identifying YHWH as the subject.[1]
- Some scholars have argued that the 3ms suffix refers to a person who fears YHWH, either as an objective genitive ("his praise" = "the praise which he receives")[2] or a subjective genitive ("his praise" = "the praise which he gives").[3] But if this were the case, then we might have expected a 3mp suffix.