Psalms 109:11

109:11 May the creditor seize ¹  all he owns!

May strangers loot his property! ² 

Psalms 54:3

54:3 For foreigners ³  attack me; ⁴ 

ruthless men, who do not respect God, seek my life. ⁵  (Selah)

[109:11]  ¹ tn Heb “lay snares for” (see Ps 38:12).

[109:11]  ² tn Heb “the product of his labor.”

[54:3]  ³ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss read זֵדִים (zedim, “proud ones”) rather than זָרִים (zarim, “foreigners”). (No matter which reading one chooses as original, dalet-resh confusion accounts for the existence of the variant.) The term זֵדִים (“proud ones”) occurs in parallelism with עָרִיצִים (’aritsim, “violent ones”) in Ps 86:14 and Isa 13:11. However, זָרִים (zarim, “foreigners”) is parallel to עָרִיצִים (’aritsim, “violent ones”) in Isa 25:5; 29:5; Ezek 28:7; 31:12.

[54:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “rise against me.”

[54:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “and ruthless ones seek my life, they do not set God in front of them.”