58:3 The wicked turn aside from birth; 1
liars go astray as soon as they are born. 2
63:9 Enemies seek to destroy my life, 3
but they will descend into the depths of the earth. 4
108:11 Have you not rejected us, O God?
O God, you do not go into battle with our armies.
1 tn Heb “from the womb.”
2 tn Heb “speakers of a lie go astray from the womb.”
3 tn Heb “but they for destruction seek my life.” The pronoun “they” must refer here to the psalmist’s enemies, referred to at this point for the first time in the psalm.
4 sn The depths of the earth refers here to the underworld dwelling place of the dead (see Ezek 26:20; 31:14, 16, 18; 32:18, 24). See L. I. J. Stadelmann, The Hebrew Conception of the World, 167.