[18:29] 1 tn Or “for.” The translation assumes that כִּי (ki) is asseverative here.
[18:29] 3 tn Heb “I will run.” The imperfect verbal forms in v. 29 indicate the subject’s potential or capacity to perform an action. Though one might expect a preposition to follow the verb here, this need not be the case with the verb רוּץ (ruts; see 1 Sam 17:22). Some emend the Qal to a Hiphil form of the verb and translate, “I put to flight [Heb “cause to run”] an army.”
[18:29] 4 tn More specifically, the noun גְּדוּד (gÿdud) refers to a raiding party or to a contingent of troops.
[18:29] 5 tn Heb “and by my God.”
[18:29] 6 sn I can jump over a wall. The psalmist uses hyperbole to emphasize his God-given military superiority.
