Discovery BoxPsalms 9:6 
Context9:6 The enemy’s cities have been reduced to permanent ruins; 1
you destroyed their cities; 2
all memory of the enemies has perished. 3
Psalms 109:13
Context109:13 May his descendants 4 be cut off! 5
May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives! 6
1 tn Heb “the enemy – they have come to an end [in] ruins permanently.” The singular form אוֹיֵב (’oyev, “enemy”) is collective. It is placed at the beginning of the verse to heighten the contrast with יְהוָה (yÿhvah, “the
2 tn Heb “you uprooted cities.”
3 tn Heb “it has perished, their remembrance, they.” The independent pronoun at the end of the line is in apposition to the preceding pronominal suffix and lends emphasis (see IBHS 299 §16.3.4). The referent of the masculine pronoun is the nations/enemies (cf. v. 5), not the cities (the Hebrew noun עָרִים [’arim, “cities”] is grammatically feminine). This has been specified in the present translation for clarity; many modern translations retain the pronoun “them,” resulting in ambiguity (cf. NRSV “their cities you have rooted out; the very memory of them has perished”).
4 tn Or “offspring.”
5 sn On the expression cut off see Ps 37:28.
6 tn Heb “in another generation may their name be wiped out.”
