“ignorance” also comes out in the root ʿlm, “to be dark, ignorant,” discussed at Ps 55:2 and at Job 22:15 by Pope (AB, vol. 15). foundations … are shaken. Consult the first NOTE on Ps 75:4 for this metaphor depicting injustice and lawlessness as a sapping of the earth’s foundations. 6. I had thought. Here the speaker is the psalmist. Budde’s brilliant discovery in JBL 40 (1921), 39–40, that ʾāmartī, introducing one clause, followed by ʾākēn, introducing a second clause, must be translated, “I