Mazmur 144:11

144:11 Grab me and rescue me from the power of foreigners, ¹ 

who speak lies,

and make false promises. ² 

Mazmur 54:3

54:3 For foreigners ³  attack me; ⁴ 

ruthless men, who do not respect God, seek my life. ⁵  (Selah)

[144:11]  ¹ tn Heb “from the hand of the sons of foreignness.”

[144:11]  ² tn Heb “who [with] their mouth speak falsehood, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.” See v. 8 where the same expression occurs.

[54:3]  ³ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss read זֵדִים (zedim, “proud ones”) rather than זָרִים (zarim, “foreigners”). (No matter which reading one chooses as original, dalet-resh confusion accounts for the existence of the variant.) The term זֵדִים (“proud ones”) occurs in parallelism with עָרִיצִים (’aritsim, “violent ones”) in Ps 86:14 and Isa 13:11. However, זָרִים (zarim, “foreigners”) is parallel to עָרִיצִים (’aritsim, “violent ones”) in Isa 25:5; 29:5; Ezek 28:7; 31:12.

[54:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “rise against me.”

[54:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “and ruthless ones seek my life, they do not set God in front of them.”