Psalms 44:11

44:11 You handed us ¹  over like sheep to be eaten;

you scattered us among the nations.

Psalms 106:27

106:27 make their descendants ²  die ³  among the nations,

and scatter them among foreign lands. ⁴ 

Psalms 139:3

139:3 You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest; ⁵ 

you are aware of everything I do. ⁶ 

[44:11]  ¹ tn The prefixed verbal form is a preterite (without vav [ו] consecutive).

[106:27]  ² tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”

[106:27]  ³ tn Heb “and to cause their offspring to fall.” Some emend the verb to “scatter” to form tighter parallelism with the following line (cf. NRSV “disperse”).

[106:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “among the lands.” The word “foreign” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[139:3]  ³ tn Heb “my traveling and my lying down you measure.” The verb זָרָה (zarah, “to measure”) is probably here a denominative from זָרָת (zarat, “a span; a measure”), though some derive it from זָרָה (zarat, “to winnow; to sift”; see BDB 279-80 s.v. זָרָה).

[139:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “all my ways.”