Imamat 26:33
Konteks26:33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword 1 after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
Mazmur 119:176
Konteks119:176 I have wandered off like a lost sheep. 2
Come looking for your servant,
for I do not forget your commands.
[26:33] 1 tn Heb “and I will empty sword” (see HALOT 1228 s.v. ריק 3).
[119:176] 2 tn Heb “I stray like a lost sheep.” It is possible that the point of the metaphor is vulnerability: The psalmist, who is threatened by his enemies, feels as vulnerable as a straying, lost sheep. This would not suggest, however, that he has wandered from God’s path (see the second half of the verse, as well as v. 110).