106:45 He remembered his covenant with them,
and relented 1 because of his great loyal love.
106:46 He caused all their conquerors 2
to have pity on them.
136:23 to the one who remembered us when we were down, 3
for his loyal love endures,
136:24 and snatched us away from our enemies,
for his loyal love endures,
11:16 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little 4 sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’
1 tn The Niphal of נָחַם (nakham) refers here to God relenting from a punishment already underway.
2 tn Or “captors.”
3 tn Heb “who, in our low condition, remembered us.”
4 tn Or “have been partially a sanctuary”; others take this as temporal (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV “a little while”).