Psalm 45/Notes/Grammar.vv. 4-5.340875

v. 5 – Though the position of the waw is perhaps less expected than in penultimate position ("final coordination," Scheumann 2020), coordinate waw in the antepenultimate position and lacking prior to the last entity of the list is not unheard of (GKC §154a; Fassberg 2019, §319), as also in v. 9's מֹר־וַאֲהָל֣וֹת קְ֭צִיעוֹת (such that וְעַנְוָה־צֶ֑דֶק is semantically equivalent to וַעֲנְוָה וָצֶדֶק; so Ḥakham 1979, 258). The two abstract nouns are found coordinated in Zephaniah 2:3 בַּקְּשׁוּ־צֶ֙דֶק֙ בַּקְּשׁ֣וּ עֲנָוָ֔ה "Seek righteousness, seek humility" (NIV).

Alternative readings of the syntax involve apposition between עַנְוָה and צֶ֑דֶק or emending עַנְוָה as the construct form עַנְוַת (as witnessed in Jerome's Iuxta Hebraeos, the Peshitta and Aquila). The adverbial reading of נוֹרָא֣וֹת is read in the LXX's θαυμαστῶς "marvelously" (NETS) and finds a syntactic parallel in Ps 139:14: אֽוֹדְךָ֗ עַ֤ל כִּ֥י נוֹרָא֗וֹת נִ֫פְלֵ֥יתִי "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made" (NIV; see also Ps 65:6, as pointed out by Gaster 1955, 242 n. 13).