Psalms 18:29

18:29 Indeed, ¹  with your help ²  I can charge against ³  an army; ⁴ 

by my God’s power ⁵  I can jump over a wall. ⁶ 

Hebrews 11:34

11:34 quenched raging fire, ⁷  escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength in weakness, ⁸  became mighty in battle, put foreign armies to flight,

¹ tn Or “for.” The translation assumes that כִּי (ki) is asseverative here.

² tn Heb “by you.”

³ tn Heb “I will run.” The imperfect verbal forms in v. 29 indicate the subject’s potential or capacity to perform an action. Though one might expect a preposition to follow the verb here, this need not be the case with the verb רוּץ (ruts; see 1 Sam 17:22). Some emend the Qal to a Hiphil form of the verb and translate, “I put to flight [Heb “cause to run”] an army.”

⁴ tn More specifically, the noun גְּדוּד (gÿdud) refers to a raiding party or to a contingent of troops.

⁵ tn Heb “and by my God.”

⁶ sn I can jump over a wall. The psalmist uses hyperbole to emphasize his God-given military superiority.

⁷ tn Grk “quenched the power of fire.”

⁸ tn Or “recovered from sickness.”