Psalm 4/Variants

Variants

Kinds of variants

The following is from Barthélemy's Critique textuelle de l’Ancien Testament volume on the Psalms. For a key to the various symbols and abbreviations, click here.

Ps 4,3(2) כְבוֹדִי לִכְלִמָּה {C} MT, σ', S, T // err-voc: α', Hebr / err-graph: G clav כִּבְדֵי לֵב לָמָּה

Ps 4,4(3) הִפְלָה {A} MT, S, T // usu: G, Gal, Hebr, clav הִפְלִיא.

Ps 4,5(4) אִמְרוּ {A},

Likely solutions

• v.5b. The analysis above strongly confirms the reading אִמְרוּ. Every lexical item in the first clause of v.5b (אמר, לב, שׁכב) is repeated in the a-lines of the following units (vv.7a, 8a, 9a) in the order in which they occur in v.5b. Emendations only distort this intricate design.