31:2 Listen to me! 1
Quickly deliver me!
Be my protector and refuge, 2
a stronghold where I can be safe! 3
55:6 I say, 4 “I wish I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and settle in a safe place!
55:8 I will hurry off to a place that is safe
from the strong wind 5 and the gale.”
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 The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive carries on the descriptive (present progressive) force of the verbs in v. 5.
5 tn Heb “[the] wind [that] sweeps away.” The verb סָעָה (sa’ah, “sweep away”) occurs only here in the OT (see H. R. Cohen, Biblical Hapax Legomena [SBLDS], 120).