68:19 The Lord deserves praise! 1
Day after day 2 he carries our burden,
the God who delivers us. (Selah)
68:20 Our God is a God who delivers;
the Lord, the sovereign Lord, can rescue from death. 3
68:21 Indeed God strikes the heads of his enemies,
the hairy foreheads of those who persist in rebellion. 4
68:22 The Lord says,
“I will retrieve them 5 from Bashan,
I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,
68:23 so that your feet may stomp 6 in their blood,
and your dogs may eat their portion of the enemies’ corpses.” 7
1 tn Heb “blessed [be] the Lord.”
2 tn It is possible to take this phrase with what precedes (“The Lord deserves praise day after day”) rather than with what follows.
3 tn Heb “and to the
4 tn Heb “the hairy forehead of the one who walks about in his guilt.” The singular is representative.
5 tn That is, the enemies mentioned in v. 21. Even if they retreat to distant regions, God will retrieve them and make them taste his judgment.
6 tc Some (e.g. NRSV) prefer to emend מָחַץ (makhats, “smash; stomp”; see v. 21) to רָחַץ (rakhats, “bathe”; see Ps 58:10).
7 tn Heb “[and] the tongue of your dogs from [the] enemies [may eat] its portion.”