13:3 Look at me! 1 Answer me, O Lord my God!
Revive me, 2 or else I will die! 3
37:34 Rely 4 on the Lord! Obey his commands! 5
Then he will permit you 6 to possess the land;
you will see the demise of evil men. 7
A psalm of David.
141:1 O Lord, I cry out to you. Come quickly to me!
Pay attention to me when I cry out to you!
1 tn Heb “see.”
2 tn Heb “Give light [to] my eyes.” The Hiphil of אוּר (’ur), when used elsewhere with “eyes” as object, refers to the law of God giving moral enlightenment (Ps 19:8), to God the creator giving literal eyesight to all people (Prov 29:13), and to God giving encouragement to his people (Ezra 9:8). Here the psalmist pictures himself as being on the verge of death. His eyes are falling shut and, if God does not intervene soon, he will “fall asleep” for good.
3 tn Heb “or else I will sleep [in?] the death.” Perhaps the statement is elliptical, “I will sleep [the sleep] of death,” or “I will sleep [with the sleepers in] death.”
4 tn Or “wait.”
5 tn Heb “keep his way.” The
6 tn Heb “and he will lift you up.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) is best taken here as a result clause following the imperatives in the preceding lines.
7 tn Heb “when evil men are cut off you will see.”
8 sn Psalm 141. The psalmist asks God to protect him from sin and from sinful men.