Mazmur 6:6

6:6 I am exhausted as I groan;

all night long I drench my bed in tears; ¹ 

my tears saturate the cushion beneath me. ² 

Mazmur 42:3

42:3 I cannot eat, I weep day and night; ³ 

all day long they say to me, ⁴  “Where is your God?”

Mazmur 80:5

80:5 You have given them tears as food; ⁵ 

you have made them drink tears by the measure. ⁶ 

[6:6]  ¹ tn Heb “I cause to swim through all the night my bed.”

[6:6]  ² tn Heb “with my tears my bed I flood/melt.”

[42:3]  ³ tn Heb “My tears have become my food day and night.”

[42:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “when [they] say to me all the day.” The suffixed third masculine plural pronoun may have been accidentally omitted from the infinitive בֶּאֱמֹר (be’ÿmor, “when [they] say”). Note the term בְּאָמְרָם (bÿ’omram, “when they say”) in v. 10.

[80:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “you have fed them the food of tears.”

[80:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “[by] the third part [of a measure].” The Hebrew term שָׁלִישׁ (shalish, “third part [of a measure]”) occurs only here and in Isa 40:12.