- In Psalms 85:2, God is asked to “favor the land” — might this be a tefillah for rain? (Skip ahead, for a moment, to Psalms 85:13)
- If there is no rain, according to Psalms 85:3, what would be the cause of it?
- And, in the Middle East, what is the essential ingredient for “life”?
- Would the construct of Psalms 85:12 indicate growth and rain “from heaven”?
- Translating Psalms 85:13 other than in the JPS version (and in accordance with Dahood, (Psalms, volume 2) “with a crash will God give His rain and our land will give its produce,” would this seem in keeping with the nature of the tefillah?
- In any event, however Psalms 85:13 may be translated, what is the essential attribute of the Divine as set forth in Psalms 85:14?
