13. τὸν κύριον] Not in Heb. πλῆθος ἐγενήθη νεκρῶν διὰ λιμὸν] Heb. is literally, ‘its glory (is) men
of famine.’ πλῆθος may either be a different shade of meaning, or be
due to reading ‘33 for ABBREV the converse difference is perhaps seen
in Job xxxv. 16, ῥήματα βαρύνει. νεκρῶν, ‘dead,’ differs only in vowel
points from ‘men,’ ABBREV for ABBREV this latter is not the most usual
word, but occurs, e.g., in iii. 25, xli. 14, Job xi. II, Gen. xxxiv. 30
Ps. cv. 12, and freq. in Deuteronomy, ii. 34, iii. 6, iv. 27. Confusion
often arises; Vulg. has here ’nterz’erunt, and in xli. 14 ’ ’s.
This word for men appears to convey the meaning of ‘weakness,’ if
not of ‘fewness,’ as in Gen. xxxiv. 30, Deut. iv. 27: ὀλιγοστός, xli. 14.
Some commentators propose here ABBREV ‘exhausted,’ as in Deut. xxxii.
24; and some follow LXX.: which having rendered thus, abandons
the parallelism, omitting ‘multitude’ in the last clause of the verse. δίψαν] δίψος· Β. Lid. and Scott consider δίψα the older Attic
form, and its literary pedigree is more complete: Thucydides and
Plato use both forms; Xenophon has δίψος. 14. ᾅδης] The regular rendering of Heb. Sheol, the Underworld:
which is often regarded as personal. This use, according to
Cheyne,—see his note here—is later. See Habak. ii. 5, Jonah
Prov. xxx. 16 seems doubtful. So Θάνατος is a character in the Alcestis
of Euripides: cf. Soph. Aj. 854, Hom. [1. XIV. 231, and even Psalm
xlix. 14. In Greek, Ἅιδης is first personal, and the idea ofa place
hence the genitive case after prepositions, a word being supplied. See
xiv. 15, 19: this use is constant in classical Greek with different forms
of the name: cf. Ventum erat ad Vestae, Hor. Sat. 1. ix. 35. ψυχὴν] Heb. word for ‘soul’ often carries the meaning of ‘self,’
‘inclination,’ ‘appetite.’ Cf. lvi. 11, Ps. xxxv. 25, &c.
τοῦ μὴ διαλιπεῖν] ΑΓ 93vid [09 actually read διαλείπειν, but ι and
are written almost interchangeably in our MSS., and the aorist seems
preferable here.