22:9 Yes, you are the one who brought me out 1 from the womb
and made me feel secure on my mother’s breasts.
22:10 I have been dependent on you since birth; 2
from the time I came out of my mother’s womb you have been my God. 3
78:71 He took him away from following the mother sheep, 4
and made him the shepherd of Jacob, his people,
and of Israel, his chosen nation. 5
131:2 Indeed 6 I am composed and quiet, 7
like a young child carried by its mother; 8
I am content like the young child I carry. 9
1 tn Or “the one who pulled me.” The verb is derived from either גָחָה (gakhah; see HALOT 187 s.v. גחה) or גִּיחַ (giyakh; see BDB 161 s.v. גִּיחַ) and seems to carry the nuance “burst forth” or “pull out.”
2 tn Heb “upon you I was cast from [the] womb.”
3 tn Heb “from the womb of my mother you [have been] my God.”
sn Despite the enemies’ taunts, the psalmist is certain of his relationship with God, which began from the time of his birth (from the time I came out of my mother’s womb).
4 tn Heb “from after the ewes he brought him.”
5 tn Heb “to shepherd Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.”
6 tn Or “but.”
7 tn Heb “I make level and make quiet my soul.”
8 tn Heb “like a weaned [one] upon his mother.”
9 tn Heb “like the weaned [one] upon me, my soul.”