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Psalms 5:10

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5:10 Condemn them, 1  O God!

May their own schemes be their downfall! 2 

Drive them away 3  because of their many acts of insurrection, 4 

for they have rebelled against you.

Psalms 59:3

Context

59:3 For look, they wait to ambush me; 5 

powerful men stalk 6  me,

but not because I have rebelled or sinned, O Lord. 7 

1 tn Heb “declare/regard them as guilty.” Declaring the psalmist’s adversaries guilty is here metonymic for judging them or paying them back for their wrongdoing.

2 tn Heb “may they fall from their plans.” The prefixed verbal form is a jussive, expressing an imprecation. The psalmist calls judgment down on the evildoers. Their plans will be their downfall in that God will judge them for their evil schemes.

3 tn Or “banish them.”

4 tn The Hebrew noun used here, פֶּשַׁע (pesha’), refers to rebellious actions. The psalmist pictures his enemies as rebels against God (see the next line).

5 tn Heb “my life.”

6 tn The Hebrew verb is from the root גּוּר (gur), which means “to challenge, attack” in Isa 54:15 and “to stalk” (with hostile intent) in Ps 56:8.

7 sn The point is that the psalmist’s enemies have no justifiable reason for attacking him. He has neither rebelled or sinned against the Lord.



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