Psalms 86:14

86:14 O God, arrogant men attack me; ¹ 

a gang ²  of ruthless men, who do not respect you, seek my life. ³ 

Psalms 54:3

54:3 For foreigners ⁴  attack me; ⁵ 

ruthless men, who do not respect God, seek my life. ⁶  (Selah)

[86:14]  ¹ tn Heb “rise up against me.”

[86:14]  ² tn Or “assembly.”

[86:14]  ³ tn Heb “seek my life and do not set you before them.” See Ps 54:3.

[54:3]  ⁴ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss read זֵדִים (zedim, “proud ones”) rather than זָרִים (zarim, “foreigners”). (No matter which reading one chooses as original, dalet-resh confusion accounts for the existence of the variant.) The term זֵדִים (“proud ones”) occurs in parallelism with עָרִיצִים (’aritsim, “violent ones”) in Ps 86:14 and Isa 13:11. However, זָרִים (zarim, “foreigners”) is parallel to עָרִיצִים (’aritsim, “violent ones”) in Isa 25:5; 29:5; Ezek 28:7; 31:12.

[54:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “rise against me.”

[54:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “and ruthless ones seek my life, they do not set God in front of them.”