Mazmur 18:5-6
Konteks18:5 The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, 1
the snares of death trapped me. 2
18:6 In my distress I called to the Lord;
I cried out to my God. 3
From his heavenly temple 4 he heard my voice;
he listened to my cry for help. 5
Mazmur 40:1-2
KonteksFor the music director; By David, a psalm.
40:1 I relied completely 7 on the Lord,
and he turned toward me
and heard my cry for help.
40:2 He lifted me out of the watery pit, 8
out of the slimy mud. 9
He placed my feet on a rock
and gave me secure footing. 10
Mazmur 69:13-18
Konteks69:13 O Lord, may you hear my prayer and be favorably disposed to me! 11
O God, because of your great loyal love,
answer me with your faithful deliverance! 12
69:14 Rescue me from the mud! Don’t let me sink!
Deliver me 13 from those who hate me,
from the deep water!
69:15 Don’t let the current overpower me!
Don’t let the deep swallow me up!
Don’t let the pit 14 devour me! 15
69:16 Answer me, O Lord, for your loyal love is good! 16
Because of your great compassion, turn toward me!
69:17 Do not ignore 17 your servant,
for I am in trouble! Answer me right away! 18
69:18 Come near me and redeem me! 19
Because of my enemies, rescue me!
Mazmur 116:3-4
Konteks116:3 The ropes of death tightened around me, 20
the snares 21 of Sheol confronted me.
I was confronted 22 with trouble and sorrow.
116:4 I called on the name of the Lord,
“Please Lord, rescue my life!”
Mazmur 130:1-2
KonteksA song of ascents. 24
130:1 From the deep water 25 I cry out to you, O Lord.
130:2 O Lord, listen to me! 26
Pay attention to 27 my plea for mercy!
[18:5] 1 tn Heb “surrounded me.”
[18:5] 2 tn Heb “confronted me.”
[18:6] 3 tn In this poetic narrative context the four prefixed verbal forms in v. 6 are best understood as preterites indicating past tense, not imperfects.
[18:6] 4 tn Heb “from his temple.” Verse 10, which pictures God descending from the sky, indicates that the heavenly temple is in view, not the earthly one.
[18:6] 5 tc Heb “and my cry for help before him came into his ears.” 2 Sam 22:7 has a shorter reading, “my cry for help, in his ears.” It is likely that Ps 18:6 MT as it now stands represents a conflation of two readings: (1) “my cry for help came before him,” (2) “my cry for help came into his ears.” See F. M. Cross and D. N. Freedman, Studies in Ancient Yahwistic Poetry (SBLDS), 144, n. 13.
[40:1] 6 sn Psalm 40. The psalmist combines a song of thanksgiving for a recent act of divine deliverance (vv. 1-11) with a confident petition for renewed divine intervention (vv. 12-17).
[40:1] 7 tn Heb “relying, I relied.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verbal form to emphasize the verbal idea. The emphasis is reflected in the translation through the adverb “completely.” Another option is to translate, “I waited patiently” (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV).
[40:2] 8 tn Heb “cistern of roaring.” The Hebrew noun בּוֹר (bor, “cistern, pit”) is used metaphorically here of Sheol, the place of death, which is sometimes depicted as a raging sea (see Ps 18:4, 15-16). The noun שָׁאוֹן (sha’on, “roaring”) refers elsewhere to the crashing sound of the sea’s waves (see Ps 65:7).
[40:2] 9 tn Heb “from the mud of mud.” The Hebrew phrase translated “slimy mud” employs an appositional genitive. Two synonyms are joined in a construct relationship to emphasize the single idea. For a detailed discussion of the grammatical point with numerous examples, see Y. Avishur, “Pairs of Synonymous Words in the Construct State (and in Appositional Hendiadys) in Biblical Hebrew,” Semitics 2 (1971): 17-81.
[40:2] 10 tn Heb “he established my footsteps.”
[69:13] 11 tn Heb “as for me, [may] my prayer be to you, O
[69:13] 12 tn Heb “O God, in the abundance of your loyal love, answer me in the faithfulness of your deliverance.”
[69:14] 13 tn Heb “let me be delivered.”
[69:15] 14 tn Heb “well,” which here symbolizes the place of the dead (cf. Ps 55:23).
[69:15] 15 tn Heb “do not let the well close its mouth upon me.”
[69:16] 16 tn Or “pleasant”; or “desirable.”
[69:17] 17 tn Heb “do not hide your face from.” The Hebrew idiom “hide the face” can (1) mean “ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or (2) carry the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 30:7; 88:14).
[69:18] 19 tn Heb “come near my life and redeem it.” The verb “redeem” casts the
[116:3] 20 tn Heb “surrounded me.”
[116:3] 21 tn The Hebrew noun מצר (“straits; distress”) occurs only here, Ps 118:5 and Lam 1:3. If retained, it refers to Sheol as a place where one is confined or severely restricted (cf. BDB 865 s.v. מֵצַר, “the straits of Sheol”; NIV “the anguish of the grave”; NRSV “the pangs of Sheol”). However, HALOT 624 s.v. מֵצַר suggests an emendation to מְצָדֵי (mÿtsadey, “snares of”), a rare noun attested in Job 19:6 and Eccl 7:26. This proposal, which is reflected in the translation, produces better parallelism with “ropes” in the preceding line.
[116:3] 22 tn The translation assumes the prefixed verbal form is a preterite. The psalmist recalls the crisis from which the Lord delivered him.
[130:1] 23 sn Psalm 130. The psalmist, confident of the Lord’s forgiveness, cries out to the Lord for help in the midst of his suffering and urges Israel to do the same.
[130:1] 24 sn The precise significance of this title, which appears in Pss 120-134, is unclear. Perhaps worshipers recited these psalms when they ascended the road to Jerusalem to celebrate annual religious festivals. For a discussion of their background see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 219-21.
[130:1] 25 tn Heb “depths,” that is, deep waters (see Ps 69:2, 14; Isa 51:10), a metaphor for the life-threatening danger faced by the psalmist.
[130:2] 27 tn Heb “may your ears be attentive to the voice of.”
