Psalms 18:27

18:27 For you deliver oppressed ¹  people,

but you bring down those who have a proud look. ² 

Psalms 74:6

74:6 And now ³  they are tearing down ⁴  all its engravings ⁵ 

with axes ⁶  and crowbars. ⁷ 

Psalms 136:17

136:17 to the one who struck down great kings,

for his loyal love endures,

Psalms 147:6

147:6 The Lord lifts up the oppressed,

but knocks ⁸  the wicked to the ground.

[18:27]  ¹ tn Or perhaps, “humble” (note the contrast with those who are proud).

[18:27]  ² tn Heb “but proud eyes you bring low.” 2 Sam 22:28 reads, “your eyes [are] upon the proud, [whom] you bring low.”

[74:6]  ³ tn This is the reading of the Qere (marginal reading). The Kethib (consonantal text) has “and a time.”

[74:6]  ⁴ tn The imperfect verbal form vividly describes the act as underway.

[74:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “its engravings together.”

[74:6]  ⁶ tn This Hebrew noun occurs only here in the OT (see H. R. Cohen, Biblical Hapax Legomena [SBLDS], 49-50).

[74:6]  ⁷ tn This Hebrew noun occurs only here in the OT. An Akkadian cognate refers to a “pickaxe” (cf. NEB “hatchet and pick”; NIV “axes and hatchets”; NRSV “hatchets and hammers”).

[147:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “brings down.”