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Psalms 39:2

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39:2 I was stone silent; 1 

I held back the urge to speak. 2 

My frustration grew; 3 

1 tn Heb “I was mute [with] silence.”

2 tn Heb “I was quiet from good.” He kept quiet, resisting the urge to find emotional release and satisfaction by voicing his lament.

sn I held back the urge to speak. For a helpful discussion of the relationship (and tension) between silence and complaint in ancient Israelite lamentation, see E. S. Gerstenberger, Psalms, Part I (FOTL), 166-67.

3 tn Heb “and my pain was stirred up.” Emotional pain is in view here.



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