Discovery BoxPsalms 45:16 
Context45:16 Your 1 sons will carry 2 on the dynasty of your ancestors; 3
you will make them princes throughout the land.
Psalms 78:12
Context78:12 He did amazing things in the sight of their ancestors,
in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan. 4
Psalms 78:57
Context78:57 They were unfaithful 5 and acted as treacherously as 6 their ancestors;
they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow. 7
Psalms 95:9
Context95:9 where your ancestors challenged my authority, 8
and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.
Psalms 109:14
Context109:14 May his ancestors’ 9 sins be remembered by the Lord!
May his mother’s sin not be forgotten! 10
1 tn The pronoun is second masculine singular, indicating the king is being addressed from this point to the end of the psalm.
2 tn The prefixed verbal form could be taken as jussive and the statement interpreted as a prayer, “May your sons carry on the dynasty of your ancestors!” The next line could then be taken as a relative clause, “[your sons] whom you will make princes throughout the land.”
3 tn Heb “in place of your fathers will be your sons.”
4 sn The region of Zoan was located in the Egyptian delta, where the enslaved Israelites lived (see Num 13:22; Isa 19:11, 13; 30:4; Ezek 30:14).
5 tn Heb “they turned back.”
6 tn Or “acted treacherously like.”
7 tn Heb “they turned aside like a deceitful bow.”
8 tn Heb “where your fathers tested me.”
9 tn Or “fathers’ sins.”
10 tn Heb “not be wiped out.”
sn According to ancient Israelite theology and its doctrine of corporate solidarity and responsibility, children could be and often were punished for the sins of their parents. For a discussion of this issue see J. Kaminsky, Corporate Responsibility in the Hebrew Bible (JSOTSup). (Kaminsky, however, does not deal with Ps 109.)
