Mazmur 90:8

90:8 You are aware of our sins; ¹ 

you even know about our hidden sins. ² 

Mazmur 139:11

139:11 If I were to say, “Certainly the darkness will cover me, ³ 

and the light will turn to night all around me,” ⁴ 

Mazmur 140:11

140:11 A slanderer ⁵  will not endure on ⁶  the earth;

calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down. ⁷ 

[90:8]  ¹ tn Heb “you set our sins in front of you.”

[90:8]  ² tn Heb “what we have hidden to the light of your face.” God’s face is compared to a light or lamp that exposes the darkness around it.

[139:11]  ³ tn The Hebrew verb שׁוּף (shuf), which means “to crush; to wound,” in Gen 3:15 and Job 9:17, is problematic here. For a discussion of attempts to relate the verb to Arabic roots, see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 251. Many emend the form to יְשׂוּכֵּנִי (yesukkeniy), from the root שׂכך (“to cover,” an alternate form of סכך), a reading assumed in the present translation.

[139:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “and night, light, around me.”

[140:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “a man of a tongue.”

[140:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “be established in.”

[140:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “for blows.” The Hebrew noun מַדְחֵפֹה (madkhefoh, “blow”) occurs only here in the OT.