31:2 Listen to me! 1
Quickly deliver me!
Be my protector and refuge, 2
a stronghold where I can be safe! 3
31:4 You will free me 4 from the net they hid for me,
for you are my place of refuge.
1 tn Heb “turn toward me your ear.”
2 tn Heb “become for me a rocky summit of refuge.”
3 tn Heb “a house of strongholds to deliver me.”
4 tn Heb “bring me out.” The translation assumes that the imperfect verbal form expresses the psalmist’s confidence about the future. Another option is to take the form as expressing a prayer, “free me.”