Mazmur 7:13

7:13 He prepares to use deadly weapons against him; ¹ 

he gets ready to shoot flaming arrows. ² 

Mazmur 52:5

52:5 Yet ³  God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. ⁴ 

He will scoop you up ⁵  and remove you from your home; ⁶ 

he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

Mazmur 140:9

140:9 As for the heads of those who surround me –

may the harm done by ⁷  their lips overwhelm them!

Mazmur 140:11

140:11 A slanderer ⁸  will not endure on ⁹  the earth;

calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down. ¹⁰ 

[7:13]  ¹ tn Heb “and for him he prepares the weapons of death.”

[7:13]  ² tn Heb “his arrows into flaming [things] he makes.”

[52:5]  ³ tn The adverb גַּם (gam, “also; even”) is translated here in an adversative sense (“yet”). It highlights the contrastive correspondence between the evildoer’s behavior and God’s response.

[52:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “will tear you down forever.”

[52:5]  ⁵ tn This rare verb (חָתָה, khatah) occurs only here and in Prov 6:27; 25:22; Isa 30:14.

[52:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “from [your] tent.”

[140:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “harm of their lips.” The genitive here indicates the source or agent of the harm.

[140:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “a man of a tongue.”

[140:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “be established in.”

[140:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “for blows.” The Hebrew noun מַדְחֵפֹה (madkhefoh, “blow”) occurs only here in the OT.