Psalm 110:6

Footnotes

1. 22 The imperfect verbal forms in vv. 6–7 are understood here as descriptive-dramatic or as generalizing, though they could be taken as future.
2. 23 Or “among.”
3. 24 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.
4. 25 Heb “he strikes [the verb is מָחַץ (makhats), translated “strikes down” in v. 5] head[s] over a great land.” The Hebrew term רַבָּה (, “great”) is here used of distance or spatial measurement (see 1 Sam 26:13).