Psalms I, pp. 291 f. Thus yādekā, “left hand,” connotes the north, yemīnekā, “right hand,” the south, qedem denotes “east,” and if qereb hāʾāreṣ refers to Jerusalem, we have the fourth direction. And if this explanation is misguided, one can find the missing point of the compass in the first colon of vs. 13, yām, “sea,” but often denoting “west.” This motif recurs in Pss 48:3, 8, 11, 139:9–11; Isa 43:5–6; Job 23:8–9; on the last passage consult Pope (The Anchor Bible, vol. 15), NOTE ad