69:16 Answer me, O Lord, for your loyal love is good! 1
Because of your great compassion, turn toward me!
90:13 Turn back toward us, O Lord!
How long must this suffering last? 2
Have pity on your servants! 3
102:19 For he will look down from his sanctuary above; 4
from heaven the Lord will look toward earth, 5
1 tn Or “pleasant”; or “desirable.”
2 tn Heb “Return, O
3 tn Elsewhere the Niphal of נָחַם (nakham) + the preposition עַל (’al) + a personal object has the nuance “be comforted concerning [the personal object’s death]” (see 2 Sam 13:39; Jer 31:15). However, here the context seems to demand “feel sorrow for,” “have pity on.” In Deut 32:36 and Ps 135:14, where “servants” is also the object of the preposition, this idea is expressed with the Hitpael form of the verb.
4 tn Heb “from the height of his sanctuary.”
5 tn The perfect verbal forms in v. 19 are functioning as future perfects, indicating future actions that will precede the future developments described in v. 18.