18:27 For you deliver oppressed 1 people,
but you bring down those who have a proud look. 2
74:6 And now 3 they are tearing down 4 all its engravings 5
with axes 6 and crowbars. 7
136:17 to the one who struck down great kings,
for his loyal love endures,
147:6 The Lord lifts up the oppressed,
but knocks 8 the wicked to the ground.
1 tn Or perhaps, “humble” (note the contrast with those who are proud).
2 tn Heb “but proud eyes you bring low.” 2 Sam 22:28 reads, “your eyes [are] upon the proud, [whom] you bring low.”
3 tn This is the reading of the Qere (marginal reading). The Kethib (consonantal text) has “and a time.”
4 tn The imperfect verbal form vividly describes the act as underway.
5 tn Heb “its engravings together.”
6 tn This Hebrew noun occurs only here in the OT (see H. R. Cohen, Biblical Hapax Legomena [SBLDS], 49-50).
7 tn This Hebrew noun occurs only here in the OT. An Akkadian cognate refers to a “pickaxe” (cf. NEB “hatchet and pick”; NIV “axes and hatchets”; NRSV “hatchets and hammers”).
5 tn Heb “brings down.”