Psalms 76:5

The bravehearted ¹  were plundered; ²  they “fell asleep.” ³  All the warriors were helpless. ⁴ 

Valiant men lie plundered, they sleep their last sleep; not one of the warriors can lift his hands.

The stouthearted were plundered, They sank into sleep; And none of the warriors could use his hands.

The mightiest of our enemies have been plundered. They lie before us in the sleep of death. No warrior could lift a hand against us.

The warriors were plundered and left there impotent. And now there's nothing to them, nothing to show for their swagger and threats.

Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.

The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; none of the troops was able to lift a hand.

The stouthearted were plundered; They have sunk into their sleep; And none of the mighty men have found the use of their hands.

The bravehearted ¹  were plundered; ²  they “fell asleep.” ³  All the warriors were helpless. ⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “strong of heart.” In Isa 46:12, the only other text where this phrase appears, it refers to those who are stubborn, but here it seems to describe brave warriors (see the next line).

² tn The verb is a rare Aramaized form of the Hitpolel (see GKC 149 §54.a, n. 2); the root is שָׁלַל (shalal, “to plunder”).

³ tn Heb “they slept [in] their sleep.” “Sleep” here refers to the “sleep” of death. A number of modern translations take the phrase to refer to something less than death, however: NASB “cast into a deep sleep”; NEB “fall senseless”; NIV “lie still”; NRSV “lay stunned.”

⁴ tn Heb “and all the men of strength did not find their hands.”