Ulangan 9:21

9:21 As for your sinful thing ¹  that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ²  ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.

Mazmur 78:39

78:39 He remembered ³  that they were made of flesh,

and were like a wind that blows past and does not return. ⁴ 

[9:21]  ¹ tn Heb “your sin.” This is a metonymy in which the effect (sin) stands for the cause (the metal calf).

[9:21]  ² tn Heb “burned it with fire.”

[78:39]  ³ tn The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive signals a return to the narrative.

[78:39]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he remembered that they [were] flesh, a wind [that] goes and does not return.”