Discovery BoxPsalms 81:9 
Context81:9 There must be 1 no other 2 god among you.
You must not worship a foreign god.
Psalms 106:27
Context106:27 make their descendants 3 die 4 among the nations,
and scatter them among foreign lands. 5
Psalms 107:3
Context107:3 and gathered from foreign lands, 6
from east and west,
from north and south.
Psalms 114:1
Context114:1 When Israel left Egypt,
when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind, 8
Psalms 137:4
Context137:4 How can we sing a song to the Lord
in a foreign land?
1 tn The imperfect verbal forms in v. 9 have a modal function, expressing what is obligatory.
2 tn Heb “different”; “illicit.”
3 tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”
4 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”).
5 tn Heb “among the lands.” The word “foreign” is supplied in the translation for clarification.
6 tn Heb “from lands.” The word “foreign” is supplied in the translation for clarification.
7 sn Psalm 114. The psalmist recalls the events of the exodus and conquest and celebrates God’s kingship over his covenant people.
8 tn Heb “the house of Jacob from a nation speaking a foreign language.” The Hebrew verb לָעַז (la’at, “to speak a foreign language”) occurs only here in the OT.
