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Psalm 74:8

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74:8They say to themselves,18

“We will oppress all of them.”19

They burn down all the places where people worship God in the land.20

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Footnotes

  1. 18 Heb “in their heart.”
  2. 19 Heb “[?] altogether.” The Hebrew form נִינָם (ninam) is problematic. It could be understood as the noun נִין (nin, “offspring”) but the statement “their offspring altogether” would make no sense here. C. A. Briggs and E. G. Briggs (Psalms [], 2:) emends יָחַד (yakhad, “altogether”) to יָחִיד (yakhid, “alone”) and translate “let their offspring be solitary” (i.e., exiled). Another option is to understand the form as a Qal imperfect first common plural from יָנָה (yanah, “to oppress”) with a third masculine plural pronominal suffix, “we will oppress them.” However, this verb, when used in the finite form, always appears in the Hiphil. Therefore, it is preferable to emend the form to the Hiphil נוֹנֵם (nonem, “we will oppress them”).
  3. 20 Heb “they burn down all the meeting places of God in the land.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;

they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely!”

They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They said in their hearts,

“Let’s oppress them relentlessly.”

They burned every place throughout the land

where God met with us.

NLTNew Living Translation

Then they thought, “Let’s destroy everything!”

So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

They have said in their heart,

“We will completely oppress them.”

They burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

KJV 1900King James Version

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together:

They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.