Psalm 9:6

Hebrew Bible

4 For you defended my just cause; from your throne you pronounced a just decision. 5 You terrified the nations with your battle cry. You destroyed the wicked; you permanently wiped out all memory of them. 6 The enemy’s cities have been reduced to permanent ruins. You destroyed their cities; all memory of the enemies has perished. 7 But the Lord rules forever; he reigns in a just manner. 8 He judges the world fairly; he makes just legal decisions for the nations.

LXX Psalm 9:6

Septuagint

4 When my enemy is turned away backwards, they will be weak and perish from your face, 5 because you executed my judgment and my cause. You sat upon the throne, you who decides righteousness. 6 You rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one perished. You blotted out their name for eternity, and for eternity of eternity. 7 The swords of the enemy finally came to an end, and you took down their cities. The memory of them perished with a sound. 8 But the Lord remains for eternity. He prepared his throne with judgment.

 Notes and References

"... It has been suggested that the translator of Psalms evaded the idea that God himself destroyed the wicked, and that he therefore changed the original text by reading the letters differently from the Masoretic text (עשרה דַבָא). However, if this were true, he would have been inconsistent for elsewhere in the LXX of Psalms God is pictured as personally destroying the wicked (Psalm 5:6–7; 143:12). It is therefore more likely that the difference between the Masoretic text and the Septuagint is based not on the translator’s tendentious change, but on variants that underlie the translation ..."

Tov, Emanuel The Text-Critical use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research (p. 112) Eisenbrauns, 2015

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