Psalms 68:21

68:21 Indeed God strikes the heads of his enemies,

the hairy foreheads of those who persist in rebellion. ¹ 

Psalms 68:23

68:23 so that your feet may stomp ²  in their blood,

and your dogs may eat their portion of the enemies’ corpses.” ³ 

Psalms 110:6

110:6 He executes judgment ⁴  against ⁵  the nations;

he fills the valleys with corpses; ⁶ 

he shatters their heads over the vast battlefield. ⁷ 

[68:21]  ¹ tn Heb “the hairy forehead of the one who walks about in his guilt.” The singular is representative.

[68:23]  ² tc Some (e.g. NRSV) prefer to emend מָחַץ (makhats, “smash; stomp”; see v. 21) to רָחַץ (rakhats, “bathe”; see Ps 58:10).

[68:23]  ³ tn Heb “[and] the tongue of your dogs from [the] enemies [may eat] its portion.”

[110:6]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Or “among.”

[110:6]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ 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).