⁴ tn Heb “will be cut off” (so NAB, NRSV, NLT); cf. KJV, NASB, NIV “cut out.” Their tongue will be cut off, a hyperbole meaning to bring to an end the evil that they speak.

² tn Grk “a long way off from [home].” The word “home” is implied (L&N 85.16).

¹ tn Heb “cut off” (so NASB, NRSV; also later in this verse); NAB “banish”; NIV, CEV “take away.”

² tn Heb “when the dawn is cut off” or “when the day ceases” (cf. NLT “When the day of judgment dawns”).

² tn Heb “I was about to be cut off.” The verb נִגְזָרְתִּי (nigzarti), Niphal perfect first person common singular from גָּזַר (gazar, “to be cut off”), functions in an ingressive sense: “about to be cut off.” It is used in reference to the threat of death (e.g., Ezek 37:11; Ps 88:5). To be “cut off” from the land of the living means to experience death (Isa 53:8).

¹ sn Invading armies lived off the land, using up all the produce and destroying everything they could not consume.

⁴ tn Heb “have broken the yoke and torn off the yoke ropes.” Cf. Jer 2:20 and the note there.

³ tn Heb “and his name would not be cut off and would not be destroyed from before me.”

¹ tn Heb “carried off,” i.e., grabbed from the fleeing crowd. See HALOT 764 s.v. ספה.

⁶ sn We fly away. The psalmist compares life to a bird that quickly flies off (see Job 20:8).

¹ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”

¹ tn Heb “prisoner.” Jehoiachin was carried off to Babylon as a prisoner. See 2 Chr 36:10.

² tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

¹ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”

⁶ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

¹ tn Heb “your olives will drop off” (נָשַׁל, nashal), referring to the olives dropping off before they ripen. Elsewhere זַיִת (zayit, “olive”) can refer to an olive, the tree branch, the tree, or the grove. Agriculturally it might make the most sense to mean the olive flower (cf. Job 15:33). Whether the flowers drop off without being fertilized, or the olives drop off while unripe, the harvest is lost.

² sn On the “cut off” penalty see the notes on Lev 7:20 and 17:4.

³ tn An “abomination” is something that is off-limits, something that is taboo. It could be translated “detestable” or “loathsome.”

³ tn Grk “shaking the creature off…he suffered no harm.” The participle ἀποτινάξας (apotinaxas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

⁴ tn BDAG 308 s.v. ἐκπίπτω 2 states, “drift off course, run aground, nautical term εἴς τι on someth….on the Syrtis 27:17.”