Mazmur 27:5
Konteks27:5 He will surely 1 give me shelter 2 in the day of danger; 3
he will hide me in his home; 4
he will place me 5 on an inaccessible rocky summit. 6
Mazmur 139:16
Konteks139:16 Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. 7
All the days ordained for me
were recorded in your scroll
before one of them came into existence. 8
[27:5] 1 tn Or “for he will.” The translation assumes the כִּי (ki) is asseverative here, rather than causal.
[27:5] 2 tn Heb “he will hide me in his hut.”
[27:5] 5 tn The three imperfect verb forms in v. 5 anticipate a positive response to the prayer offered in vv. 7-12.
[27:5] 6 tn Heb “on a rocky summit he lifts me up.” The
[139:16] 7 tn Heb “Your eyes saw my shapeless form.” The Hebrew noun גֹּלֶם (golem) occurs only here in the OT. In later Hebrew the word refers to “a lump, a shapeless or lifeless substance,” and to “unfinished matter, a vessel wanting finishing” (Jastrow 222 s.v. גּוֹלֶם). The translation employs the dynamic rendering “when I was inside the womb” to clarify that the speaker was still in his mother’s womb at the time he was “seen” by God.
[139:16] 8 tn Heb “and on your scroll all of them were written, [the] days [which] were formed, and [there was] not one among them.” This “scroll” may be the “scroll of life” mentioned in Ps 69:28 (see the note on the word “living” there).