Mazmur 61:2

61:2 From the most remote place on earth ¹ 

I call out to you in my despair. ² 

Lead me ³  up to an inaccessible rocky summit! ⁴ 

Mazmur 78:20

78:20 Yes, ⁵  he struck a rock and water flowed out,

streams gushed forth.

But can he also give us food?

Will he provide meat for his people?”

[61:2]  ¹ tn Heb “from the end of the earth.” This may indicate (1) the psalmist is exiled in a distant land, or (2) it may be hyperbolic (the psalmist feels alienated from God’s presence, as if he were in a distant land).

[61:2]  ² tn Heb “while my heart faints.”

[61:2]  ³ tn The imperfect verbal form here expresses the psalmist’s wish or prayer.

[61:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “on to a rocky summit [that] is higher than I.”

[78:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “look.”