[39:2] 1 tn Heb “I was mute [with] silence.”
[39:2] 2 tn Heb “I was quiet from good.” He kept quiet, resisting the urge to find emotional release and satisfaction by voicing his lament.
[39:2] sn I held back the urge to speak. For a helpful discussion of the relationship (and tension) between silence and complaint in ancient Israelite lamentation, see E. S. Gerstenberger, Psalms, Part I (FOTL), 166-67.
[39:2] 3 tn Heb “and my pain was stirred up.” Emotional pain is in view here.
[39:9] 4 tn Heb “because you acted.” The psalmist has in mind God’s disciplinary measures (see vv. 10-13).
