17:13 Rise up, Lord!
Confront him! 1 Knock him down! 2
Use your sword to rescue me from the wicked man! 3
76:3 There he shattered the arrows, 4
the shield, the sword, and the rest of the weapons of war. 5 (Selah)
1 tn Heb “Be in front of his face.”
2 tn Or “bring him to his knees.”
3 tn Heb “rescue my life from the wicked [one] [by] your sword.”
4 tn Heb “flames of the bow,” i.e., arrows.
5 tn Heb “shield and sword and battle.” “Battle” probably here stands by metonymy for the weapons of war in general.
sn This verse may allude to the miraculous defeat of the Assyrians in 701