5:2 Pay attention to my cry for help,
my king and my God,
for I am praying to you!
10:1 Why, Lord, do you stand far off?
Why do you pay no attention during times of trouble? 2
41:10 As for you, O Lord, have mercy on me and raise me up,
so I can pay them back!” 3
55:2 Pay attention to me and answer me!
I am so upset 4 and distressed, 5 I am beside myself, 6
A well-written song 8 by Asaph.
78:1 Pay attention, my people, to my instruction!
Listen to the words I speak! 9
79:12 Pay back our neighbors in full! 10
May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord! 11
106:4 Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people!
Pay attention to me, when you deliver,
140:6 I say to the Lord, “You are my God.”
O Lord, pay attention to my plea for mercy!
1 sn Psalm 10. Many Hebrew
2 tn Heb “you hide for times in trouble.” The interrogative “why” is understood by ellipsis; note the preceding line. The Hiphil verbal form “hide” has no expressed object. Some supply “your eyes” by ellipsis (see BDB 761 s.v. I עָלַם Hiph and HALOT 835 s.v. I עלם hif) or emend the form to a Niphal (“you hide yourself,” see BHS, note c; cf. NEB, NIV, NRSV).
3 tn The cohortative with prefixed vav (ו) here indicates purpose or result (“Then I will repay them”) after the preceding imperatives.
4 tn Or “restless” (see Gen 27:40). The Hiphil is intransitive-exhibitive, indicating the outward display of an inner attitude.
5 tn Heb “in my complaint.”
6 tn The verb is a Hiphil cohortative from הוּם (hum), which means “to confuse someone” in the Qal and “to go wild” in the Niphal. An Arabic cognate means “to be out of one’s senses, to wander about.” With the vav (ו) conjunctive prefixed to it, the cohortative probably indicates the result or effect of the preceding main verb. Some prefer to emend the form to וְאֵהוֹמָה (vÿ’ehomah), a Niphal of הוּם (hum), or to וְאֶהַמֶה (vÿ’ehameh), a Qal imperfect from הָמָה (hamah, “to moan”). Many also prefer to take this verb with what follows (see v. 3).
7 sn Psalm 78. The author of this lengthy didactic psalm rehearses Israel’s history. He praises God for his power, goodness and patience, but also reminds his audience that sin angers God and prompts his judgment. In the conclusion to the psalm the author elevates Jerusalem as God’s chosen city and David as his chosen king.
8 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term מַשְׂכִּיל (maskil) is uncertain. See the note on the phrase “well-written song” in the superscription of Ps 74.
9 tn Heb “Turn your ear to the words of my mouth.”
10 tn Heb “Return to our neighbors sevenfold into their lap.” The number seven is used rhetorically to express the thorough nature of the action. For other rhetorical/figurative uses of the Hebrew phrase שִׁבְעָתַיִם (shiv’atayim, “seven times”) see Gen 4:15, 24; Ps 12:6; Prov 6:31; Isa 30:26.
11 tn Heb “their reproach with which they reproached you, O Lord.”