22:24 For he did not despise or detest the suffering 1 of the oppressed; 2
he did not ignore him; 3
when he cried out to him, he responded. 4
31:22 I jumped to conclusions and said, 5
“I am cut off from your presence!” 6
But you heard my plea for mercy when I cried out to you for help.
118:5 In my distress 7 I cried out to the Lord.
The Lord answered me and put me in a wide open place. 8
1 tn Or “affliction”; or “need.”
2 sn In this verse the psalmist refers to himself in the third person and characterizes himself as oppressed.
3 tn Heb “he did not hide his face from him.” For other uses of the idiom “hide the face” meaning “ignore,” see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9. Sometimes the idiom carries the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 27:9; 88:14).
4 tn Heb “heard.”
5 tn Heb “and I, I said in my haste.”
6 tn Heb “from before your eyes.”
7 tn Heb “from the distress.” The noun מֵצַר (metsar, “straits; distress”) occurs only here and in Lam 1:3. In Ps 116:3 מצר should probably be emended to מְצָדֵי (mÿtsadey, “snares of”).
8 tn Heb “the