106:27 make their descendants 1 die 2 among the nations,
and scatter them among foreign lands. 3
144:6 Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them!
Shoot your arrows and rout them! 4
1 tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”
2 tn Heb “and to cause their offspring to fall.” Some emend the verb to “scatter” to form tighter parallelism with the following line (cf. NRSV “disperse”).
3 tn Heb “among the lands.” The word “foreign” is supplied in the translation for clarification.
4 sn Arrows and lightning bolts are associated in other texts (see Pss 18:14; 77:17-18; Zech 9:14), as well as in ancient Near Eastern art (see R. B. Chisholm, “An Exegetical and Theological study of Psalm 18/2 Samuel 22” [Th.D. diss., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1983], 187).