143:4 My strength leaves me; 1
I am absolutely shocked. 2
48:5 As soon as they see, 3 they are shocked; 4
they are terrified, they quickly retreat. 5
1 tn Heb “my spirit grows faint.”
2 tn Heb “in my midst my heart is shocked.” For a similar use of the Hitpolel of שָׁמֵם (shamem), see Isa 59:16; 63:5.
3 tn The object of “see” is omitted, but v. 3b suggests that the
4 tn Heb “they look, so they are shocked.” Here כֵּן (ken, “so”) has the force of “in the same measure.”
5 tn The translation attempts to reflect the staccato style of the Hebrew text, where the main clauses of vv. 4-6 are simply juxtaposed without connectives.