Discovery BoxPsalms 9:15 
Context9:15 The nations fell 1 into the pit they had made;
their feet were caught in the net they had hidden. 2
Psalms 25:15
Context25:15 I continually look to the Lord for help, 3
for he will free my feet from the enemy’s net. 4
Psalms 45:5
Context45:5 Your arrows are sharp
and penetrate the hearts of the king’s enemies.
Nations fall at your feet. 5
Psalms 68:23
Context68:23 so that your feet may stomp 6 in their blood,
and your dogs may eat their portion of the enemies’ corpses.” 7
1 tn Heb “sank down.”
2 sn The hostility of the nations against God’s people is their downfall, for it prompts God to intervene and destroy them. See also Ps 7:15-16.
3 tn Heb “my eyes continually [are] toward the
4 tn Heb “for he will bring out from a net my feet.” The hostility of the psalmist’s enemies is probably in view (see v. 19).
5 tn Heb “your arrows are sharp – peoples beneath you fall – in the heart of the enemies of the king.” The choppy style reflects the poet’s excitement.
6 tc Some (e.g. NRSV) prefer to emend מָחַץ (makhats, “smash; stomp”; see v. 21) to רָחַץ (rakhats, “bathe”; see Ps 58:10).
7 tn Heb “[and] the tongue of your dogs from [the] enemies [may eat] its portion.”
