50:11 I keep track of 1 every bird in the hills,
and the insects 2 of the field are mine.
124:7 We escaped with our lives, 3 like a bird from a hunter’s snare.
The snare broke, and we escaped.
1 tn Heb “I know.”
2 tn The precise referent of the Hebrew word, which occurs only here and in Ps 80:13, is uncertain. Aramaic, Arabic and Akkadian cognates refer to insects, such as locusts or crickets.
3 tn Heb “our life escaped.”