42:10 My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, 1
as they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 2
42:11 Why are you depressed, 3 O my soul? 4
Why are you upset? 5
Wait for God!
For I will again give thanks
to my God for his saving intervention. 6
1 tc Heb “with a shattering in my bones my enemies taunt me.” A few medieval Hebrew
2 sn “Where is your God?” The enemies ask this same question in v. 3.
3 tn Heb “Why do you bow down?”
4 sn For poetic effect the psalmist addresses his soul, or inner self.
5 tn Heb “and why are you in turmoil upon me?”
6 tc Heb “for again I will give him thanks, the saving acts of my face and my God.” The last line should be emended to read יְשׁוּעֹת פְנֵי אֱלֹהָי (yÿshu’ot fÿney ’elohay, “[for] the saving acts of the face of my God”), that is, the saving acts associated with God’s presence/intervention. This refrain is almost identical to the one in v. 5. See also Ps 43:5.