Psalms 31:22

31:22 I jumped to conclusions and said,

“I am cut off from your presence!”

But you heard my plea for mercy when I cried out to you for help.

Psalms 42:10

42:10 My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone,

as they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalms 88:5

88:5 adrift among the dead,

like corpses lying in the grave,

whom you remember no more,

and who are cut off from your power.

Psalms 109:13

109:13 May his descendants be cut off!

May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!


tn Heb “and I, I said in my haste.”

tn Heb “from before your eyes.”

tc Heb “with a shattering in my bones my enemies taunt me.” A few medieval Hebrew mss and Symmachus’ Greek version read “like” instead of “with.”

sn “Where is your God?” The enemies ask this same question in v. 3.

tn Heb “set free.”

tn Heb “from your hand.”

tn Or “offspring.”

sn On the expression cut off see Ps 37:28.

tn Heb “in another generation may their name be wiped out.”