Psalms 110:6

110:6 He executes judgment ¹  against ²  the nations;

he fills the valleys with corpses; ³ 

he shatters their heads over the vast battlefield. ⁴ 

Habakkuk 3:13

3:13 You march out to deliver your people,

to deliver your special servant. ⁵ 

You strike the leader of the wicked nation, ⁶ 

laying him open from the lower body to the neck. ⁷  Selah.

Mark 12:4

12:4 So ⁸  he sent another slave to them again. This one they struck on the head and treated outrageously.

[110:6]  ¹ tn The imperfect verbal forms in vv. 6-7 are understood here as descriptive-dramatic or as generalizing, though they could be taken as future.

[110:6]  ² tn Or “among.”

[110:6]  ³ tn Heb “he fills [with] corpses,” but one expects a double accusative here. The translation assumes an emendation to גְוִיּוֹת גֵאָיוֹת(בִּ) מִלֵּא or מִלֵּא גֵאָיוֹת גְּוִיוֹת (for a similar construction see Ezek 32:5). In the former case גֵאָיוֹת(ge’ayot) has accidentally dropped from the text due to homoioteleuton; in the latter case it has dropped out due to homoioarcton.

[110:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “he strikes [the verb is מָחַץ (makhats), translated “strikes down” in v. 5] head[s] over a great land.” The Hebrew term רַבָּה (rabbah, “great”) is here used of distance or spatial measurement (see 1 Sam 26:13).

[3:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “anointed one.” In light of the parallelism with “your people” in the preceding line this could refer to Israel, but elsewhere the Lord’s anointed one is always an individual. The Davidic king is the more likely referent here.

[3:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “you strike the head from the house of wickedness.”

[3:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “laying bare [from] foundation to neck.”

[12:4]  ⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the tenants’ mistreatment of the first slave.