Mazmur 81:9

81:9 There must be ¹  no other ²  god among you.

You must not worship a foreign god.

Mazmur 81:14

81:14 Then I would quickly subdue their enemies,

and attack ³  their adversaries.”

[81:9]  ¹ tn The imperfect verbal forms in v. 9 have a modal function, expressing what is obligatory.

[81:9]  ² tn Heb “different”; “illicit.”

[81:14]  ³ tn Heb “turn my hand against.” The idiom “turn the hand against” has the nuance of “strike with the hand, attack” (see Isa 1:25; Ezek 38:12; Amos 1:8; Zech 13:7).