22:5 To you they cried out, and they were saved;
in you they trusted and they were not disappointed. 1
22:24 For he did not despise or detest the suffering 2 of the oppressed; 3
he did not ignore him; 4
when he cried out to him, he responded. 5
1 tn Or “were not ashamed.”
2 tn Or “affliction”; or “need.”
3 sn In this verse the psalmist refers to himself in the third person and characterizes himself as oppressed.
4 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).
5 tn Heb “heard.”