To overthrow - literally, “To make them fall”; alluding to the words (Num 14:39).
among ... nations ... lands - The “wilderness” was not more destructive to the fathers (Psa 106:26) than residence among the heathen (“nations”) shall be to the children. Lev 26:33, Lev 26:38 is here, before the Psalmist’s mind, the determination against the “seed” when rebellious, being not expressed in Num 14:31-33, but implied in the determination against the fathers.