Mazmur 109:13

109:13 May his descendants ¹  be cut off! ² 

May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives! ³ 

Mazmur 113:3

113:3 From east to west ⁴ 

the Lord’s name is deserving of praise.

Mazmur 135:1

Psalm 135 ⁵ 

135:1 Praise the Lord!

Praise the name of the Lord!

Offer praise, you servants of the Lord,

[109:13]  ¹ tn Or “offspring.”

[109:13]  ² sn On the expression cut off see Ps 37:28.

[109:13]  ³ tn Heb “in another generation may their name be wiped out.”

[113:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “from the rising of the sun to its setting.” The extent is not temporal (“from sunrise to sunset”) but spatial (“from the place where the sun rises [the east] to the place where it sets [the west].” In the phenomenological language of OT cosmology, the sun was described as rising in the east and setting in the west.

[135:1]  ⁵ sn Psalm 135. The psalmist urges God’s people to praise him because he is the incomparable God and ruler of the world who has accomplished great things for Israel.