109:13 May his descendants 1 be cut off! 2
May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives! 3
112:6 For he will never be upended;
others will always remember one who is just. 4
10:7 The memory 5 of the righteous is a blessing,
but the reputation 6 of the wicked will rot. 7
38:11 “I thought,
‘I will no longer see the Lord 8 in the land of the living,
I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world. 9
1:14 from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel; 10
1 tn Or “offspring.”
2 sn On the expression cut off see Ps 37:28.
3 tn Heb “in another generation may their name be wiped out.”
4 tn Heb “for an eternal memorial a just [one] will be.”
5 sn “Memory” (זֵכֶר, zekher) and “name” are often paired as synonyms. “Memory” in this sense has to do with reputation, fame. One’s reputation will be good or bad by righteousness or wickedness respectively.
6 tn Heb “name.” The term “name” often functions as a metonymy of association for reputation (BDB 1028 s.v. שֵׁם 2.b).
7 tn The editors of BHS suggest a reading “will be cursed” to make a better parallelism, but the reading of the MT is more striking as a metaphor.
8 tn The Hebrew text has יָהּ יָהּ (yah yah, the abbreviated form of יְהוָה [yÿhvah] repeated), but this is probably a corruption of יְהוָה.
9 tc The Hebrew text has חָדֶל (khadel), which appears to be derived from a verbal root meaning “to cease, refrain.” But the form has probably suffered an error of transmission; the original form (attested in a few medieval Hebrew
10 tc There is a textual difficulty with this verb. The Greek form uses r and not d, giving the name Ra‘oul. There is even some variation in the Hebrew traditions, but BHS (following the Leningrad codex of