51:9 Hide your face 1 from my sins!
Wipe away 2 all my guilt!
64:2 Hide me from the plots of evil men,
from the crowd of evildoers. 3
119:19 I am like a foreigner in this land. 4
Do not hide your commands from me!
1 sn In this context Hide your face from my sins means “Do not hold me accountable for my sins.”
2 tn See the note on the similar expression “wipe away my rebellious acts” in v. 1.
3 tn Heb “workers of wickedness.”
4 tn Heb “I am a resident alien in the land.” Resident aliens were especially vulnerable and in need of help. They needed to know the social and legal customs of the land to avoid getting into trouble. The translation (note the addition of “like”) assumes the psalmist is speaking metaphorically, not literally.