13:3 Look at me! 1 Answer me, O Lord my God!
Revive me, 2 or else I will die! 3
80:18 Then we will not turn away from you.
Revive us and we will pray to you! 4
85:6 Will you not revive us once more?
Then your people will rejoice in you!
ד (Dalet)
119:25 I collapse in the dirt. 5
Revive me with your word! 6
119:37 Turn my eyes away from what is worthless! 7
Revive me with your word! 8
119:40 Look, I long for your precepts.
Revive me with your deliverance! 9
119:88 Revive me with 10 your loyal love,
that I might keep 11 the rules you have revealed. 12
119:107 I am suffering terribly.
O Lord, revive me with your word! 13
119:149 Listen to me 14 because of 15 your loyal love!
O Lord, revive me, as you typically do! 16
119:154 Fight for me 17 and defend me! 18
Revive me with your word!
119:156 Your compassion is great, O Lord.
Revive me, as you typically do! 19
119:159 See how I love your precepts!
O Lord, revive me with your loyal love!
143:11 O Lord, for the sake of your reputation, 20 revive me! 21
Because of your justice, rescue me from trouble! 22
71:20 Though you have allowed me to experience much trouble and distress, 23
revive me once again! 24
Bring me up once again 25 from the depths of the earth!
138:7 Even when I must walk in the midst of danger, 26 you revive me.
You oppose my angry enemies, 27
and your right hand delivers me.
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 Heb “and in your name we will call.”
5 tn Heb “my soul clings to the dirt.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “being; soul”) with a pronominal suffix is often equivalent to a pronoun, especially in poetry (see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 4.a).
6 tn Heb “according to your word.” Many medieval Hebrew
7 tn Heb “Make my eyes pass by from looking at what is worthless.”
8 tn Heb “by your word.”
9 tn Or “righteousness.”
10 tn Heb “according to.”
11 tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
12 tn Heb “of your mouth.”
13 tn Heb “according to your word.”
14 tn Heb “my voice.”
15 tn Heb “according to.”
16 tn Heb “according to your custom.”
17 tn Or “argue my case.”
18 tn Heb “and redeem me.” The verb “redeem” casts the
19 tn Heb “according to your customs.”
20 tn Heb “name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.
21 tn The imperfect verbal forms in vv. 11-12a are understood as expressing the psalmist’s desire. Note the petitionary tone of vv. 7-10a.
22 tn Heb “by your justice bring out my life from trouble.”
23 tn Heb “you who have caused me to see many harmful distresses.”
24 tn Heb “you return, you give me life.” The Hebrew term שׁוּב (shuv, “return”) is used here in an adverbial sense, indicating repetition of the action described by the following verb. The imperfects are understood here as expressing the psalmist’s prayer or wish. (Note the use of a distinctly jussive form at the beginning of v. 21.) Another option is to understand this as a statement of confidence, “you will revive me once again” (cf. NIV, NRSV).
25 tn Heb “you return, you bring me up.” The Hebrew term שׁוּב (shuv, “return”) is used here in an adverbial sense, indicating repetition of the action described by the following verb. The imperfects are understood here as expressing the psalmist’s prayer or wish. (Note the use of a distinctly jussive form at the beginning of v. 21.) Another option is to understand this as a statement of confidence, “you will bring me up once again” (cf. NIV, NRSV).
26 tn Or “distress.”
27 tn Heb “against the anger of my enemies you extend your hand.”