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Psalms 140:11-12

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140:11 A slanderer 1  will not endure on 2  the earth;

calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down. 3 

140:12 I know 4  that the Lord defends the cause of the oppressed

and vindicates the poor. 5 

1 tn Heb “a man of a tongue.”

2 tn Heb “be established in.”

3 tn Heb “for blows.” The Hebrew noun מַדְחֵפֹה (madkhefoh, “blow”) occurs only here in the OT.

4 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading a first person verb form here. The Kethib reads the second person.

5 tn Heb “and the just cause of the poor.”



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