8:2 From the mouths of children and nursing babies
you have ordained praise on account of your adversaries, 1
so that you might put an end to the vindictive enemy. 2
37:25 I was once young, now I am old.
I have never seen a godly man abandoned,
or his children 3 forced to search for food. 4
37:28 For the Lord promotes 5 justice,
and never abandons 6 his faithful followers.
They are permanently secure, 7
but the children 8 of evil men are wiped out. 9
78:6 so that the next generation, children yet to be born,
might know about them.
They will grow up and tell their descendants about them. 10
1 tn Heb “you establish strength because of your foes.” The meaning of the statement is unclear. The present translation follows the reading of the LXX which has “praise” (αἶνος, ainos) in place of “strength” (עֹז, ’oz); cf. NIV, NCV, NLT.
2 tn Heb “to cause to cease an enemy and an avenger.” The singular forms are collective. The Hitpael participle of נָקַם (naqam) also occurs in Ps 44:16.
3 tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”
4 tn Heb “or his offspring searching for food.” The expression “search for food” also appears in Lam 1:11, where Jerusalem’s refugees are forced to search for food and to trade their valuable possessions for something to eat.
5 tn Heb “loves.” The verb “loves” is here metonymic; the
6 tn The imperfect verbal form draws attention to this generalizing statement.
7 tn Or “protected forever.”
8 tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”
9 tn Or “cut off”; or “removed.” The perfect verbal forms in v. 28b state general truths.
10 tn Heb “in order that they might know, a following generation, sons [who] will be born, they will arise and will tell to their sons.”