Psalms 74:8

They say to themselves, ¹  “We will oppress all of them.” ²  They burn down all the places where people worship God in the land. ³ 

They said in their hearts, "We will crush them completely!" They burned every place where God was worshipped in the land.

They said in their heart, "Let us completely subdue them." They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

Then they thought, "Let’s destroy everything!" So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped.

They said to themselves, "We'll wipe them all out," and burned down all the places of worship.

They have said in their hearts, Let us put an end to them all together; they have given over to the fire all God’s places of worship in the land.

They said to themselves, "We will utterly subdue them"; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

They said in their hearts, "Let us destroy them altogether." They have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land.

They say to themselves, ¹  “We will oppress all of them.” ²  They burn down all the places where people worship God in the land. ³ 

¹ tn Heb “in their heart.”

² tc Heb “[?] altogether.” The Hebrew form נִינָם (ninam) is problematic. It could be understood as the noun נִין (nin, “offspring”) but the statement “their offspring altogether” would make no sense here. C. A. Briggs and E. G. Briggs (Psalms [ICC], 2:159) emends יָחַד (yakhad, “altogether”) to יָחִיד (yakhid, “alone”) and translate “let their offspring be solitary” (i.e., exiled). Another option is to understand the form as a Qal imperfect first common plural from יָנָה (yanah, “to oppress”) with a third masculine plural pronominal suffix, “we will oppress them.” However, this verb, when used in the finite form, always appears in the Hiphil. Therefore, it is preferable to emend the form to the Hiphil נוֹנֵם (nonem, “we will oppress them”).

³ tn Heb “they burn down all the meeting places of God in the land.”