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22 to obligate[a] his officials as he saw fit[b]
and teach his elders wisdom.
23 Then Israel came to Egypt,
and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Ham.
24 And he[c] made his people very fruitful.
He also made them[d] stronger than their[e] enemies.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 105:22 Hebrew “to bind, imprison” The LXX’s “to instruct” presupposes ysr instead of 'sr, and might be correct in light of the parallelism that is fairly tight in this psalm
  2. Psalm 105:22 Literally “in his desire soul
  3. Psalm 105:24 That is, God
  4. Psalm 105:24 Hebrew “him”
  5. Psalm 105:24 Hebrew “his”