106:24 They rejected the fruitful land; 1
they did not believe his promise. 2
106:25 They grumbled in their tents; 3
they did not obey 4 the Lord.
106:26 So he made a solemn vow 5
that he would make them die 6 in the desert,
106:27 make their descendants 7 die 8 among the nations,
and scatter them among foreign lands. 9
1 tn Heb “a land of delight” (see also Jer 3:19; Zech 7:14).
2 tn Heb “his word.”
3 sn They grumbled in their tents. See Deut 1:27.
4 tn Heb “did not listen to the voice of.”
5 tn Heb “and he lifted his hand to [or “concerning”] them.” The idiom “to lift a hand” here refers to swearing an oath. One would sometimes solemnly lift one’s hand when making such a vow (see Ezek 20:5-6, 15).
6 tn Heb “to cause them to fall.”
7 tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”
8 tn Heb “and to cause their offspring to fall.” Some emend the verb to “scatter” to form tighter parallelism with the following line (cf. NRSV “disperse”).
9 tn Heb “among the lands.” The word “foreign” is supplied in the translation for clarification.