35:3 Use your spear and lance 1 against 2 those who chase me!
Assure me with these words: 3 “I am your deliverer!”
78:50 He sent his anger in full force; 4
he did not spare them from death;
he handed their lives over to destruction. 5
1 tn Or “javelin.” On the meaning of this word, which occurs only here in the Hebrew Bible, see M. Dahood, Psalms (AB), 1:210-11.
2 tn Heb “draw out spear and lance to meet.”
3 tn Heb “say to me,” or “say to my soul.”
4 tn Heb “he leveled a path for his anger.” There were no obstacles to impede its progress; it moved swiftly and destructively.
5 tn Or perhaps “[the] plague.”