44:15 All day long I feel humiliated 1
and am overwhelmed with shame, 2
10:17 Lord, you have heard 3 the request 4 of the oppressed;
you make them feel secure because you listen to their prayer. 5
38:8 I am numb with pain and severely battered; 6
I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel. 7
102:14 Indeed, 8 your servants take delight in her stones,
and feel compassion for 9 the dust of her ruins. 10
1 tn Heb “all the day my humiliation [is] in front of me.”
2 tn Heb “and the shame of my face covers me.”
3 sn You have heard. The psalmist is confident that God has responded positively to his earlier petitions for divine intervention. The psalmist apparently prayed the words of vv. 16-18 after the reception of an oracle of deliverance (given in response to the confident petition of vv. 12-15) or after the Lord actually delivered him from his enemies.
4 tn Heb “desire.”
5 tn Heb “you make firm their heart, you cause your ear to listen.”
6 tn Heb “I am numb and crushed to excess.”
7 tn Heb “I roar because of the moaning of my heart.”
8 tn Or “for.”
9 tn The Poel of חָנַן (khanan) occurs only here and in Prov 14:21, where it refers to having compassion on the poor.
10 tn Heb “her dust,” probably referring to the dust of the city’s rubble.