21:10 You destroy their offspring 1 from the earth,
their descendants 2 from among the human race. 3
83:8 Even Assyria has allied with them,
lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. 4 (Selah)
106:27 make their descendants 5 die 6 among the nations,
and scatter them among foreign lands. 7
112:2 His descendants 8 will be powerful on the earth;
the godly 9 will be blessed.
1 tn Heb “fruit.” The next line makes it clear that offspring is in view.
2 tn Heb “seed.”
3 tn Heb “sons of man.”
4 tn Heb “they are an arm for the sons of Lot.” The “arm” is here a symbol of military might.
sn The descendants of Lot were the Moabites and Ammonites.
5 tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”
6 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”).
7 tn Heb “among the lands.” The word “foreign” is supplied in the translation for clarification.
8 tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”
9 tn Heb “His seed will be mighty on the earth, the generation of the godly.” The Hebrew term דוֹר (dor, “generation”) could be taken as parallel to “offspring” and translated “posterity,” but the singular more likely refers to the godly as a class. See BDB 189-90 s.v. for other examples where “generation” refers to a class of people.