The route that the sun follows is pictured as a half circle which takes it from one end of the heavens to the other. Some may convey the thought with the word “horizon”: “it rises on one horizon and completes its course on the other.” It will sometimes be necessary to make clear where the movement starts; for example, “the sun starts its trip at one end of the sky.”

The word translated heat always means “sun” elsewhere in the Old Testament (Job 30.28; Song 6.10; Isa 24.23; 30.26); so Briggs takes it here to mean “nothing can hide from his (that is, God’s) sun.”

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Reyburn, William D. A Handbook on the Book of Psalms. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1991. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .