Discovery BoxPsalms 28:2 
Context28:2 Hear my plea for mercy when I cry out to you for help,
when I lift my hands 1 toward your holy temple! 2
Psalms 31:22
Context31:22 I jumped to conclusions and said, 3
“I am cut off from your presence!” 4
But you heard my plea for mercy when I cried out to you for help.
Psalms 59:5
Context59:5 You, O Lord God, the invincible warrior, 5 the God of Israel,
rouse yourself and punish 6 all the nations!
Have no mercy on any treacherous evildoers! (Selah)
Psalms 102:13
Context102:13 You will rise up and have compassion on Zion. 7
For it is time to have mercy on her,
for the appointed time has come.
Psalms 142:1
ContextA well-written song 9 by David, when he was in the cave; 10 a prayer.
142:1 To the Lord I cry out; 11
to the Lord I plead for mercy. 12
1 sn I lift my hands. Lifting one’s hands toward God was a gesture of prayer.
2 tn The Hebrew term דְּבִיר (dÿvir, “temple”) actually refers to the most holy place within the sanctuary.
3 tn Heb “and I, I said in my haste.”
4 tn Heb “from before your eyes.”
5 tn Heb “
6 tn Heb “wake up to punish” (see Pss 35:23; 44:23).
7 tn The imperfect verbal forms are understood as expressing the psalmist’s confidence in God’s intervention. Another option is to take them as expressing the psalmist’s request or wish, “You, rise up and have compassion!”
8 sn Psalm 142. The psalmist laments his persecuted state and asks the Lord to deliver him from his enemies.
9 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term מַשְׂכִּיל (maskil) is uncertain. The word is derived from a verb meaning “to be prudent; to be wise.” Various options are: “a contemplative song,” “a song imparting moral wisdom,” or “a skillful [i.e., well-written] song.” The term occurs in the superscriptions of Pss 32, 42, 44, 45, 52-55, 74, 78, 88, 89, and 142, as well as in Ps 47:7.
10 sn According to the superscription, David wrote this psalm while in “the cave.” This probably refers to either the incident recorded in 1 Sam 22:1 or to the one recorded in 1 Sam 24:3. See the superscription of Ps 57.
11 tn Heb “[with] my voice to the
12 tn Heb “[with] my voice to the
