Discovery BoxPsalms 42:6 
Contextso I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan, 2
from Hermon, 3 from Mount Mizar. 4
Psalms 88:15
Context88:15 I am oppressed and have been on the verge of death since my youth. 5
I have been subjected to your horrors and am numb with pain. 6
Psalms 131:2
Context131:2 Indeed 7 I am composed and quiet, 8
like a young child carried by its mother; 9
I am content like the young child I carry. 10
Psalms 142:6
Context142:6 Listen to my cry for help,
for I am in serious trouble! 11
Rescue me from those who chase me,
for they are stronger than I am.
1 tn Heb “my God, upon me my soul bows down.” As noted earlier, “my God” belongs with the end of v. 6.
2 tn Heb “therefore I will remember you from the land of Jordan.” “Remember” is here used metonymically for prayer (see vv. 8-9). As the next line indicates, the region of the upper Jordan, where the river originates, is in view.
3 tc Heb “Hermons.” The plural form of the name occurs only here in the OT. Some suggest the plural refers to multiple mountain peaks (cf. NASB) or simply retain the plural in the translation (cf. NEB), but the final mem (ם) is probably dittographic (note that the next form in the text begins with the letter mem) or enclitic. At a later time it was misinterpreted as a plural marker and vocalized accordingly.
4 tn The Hebrew term מִצְעָר (mits’ar) is probably a proper name (“Mizar”), designating a particular mountain in the Hermon region. The name appears only here in the OT.
5 tn Heb “and am dying from youth.”
6 tn Heb “I carry your horrors [?].” The meaning of the Hebrew form אָפוּנָה (’afunah), which occurs only here in the OT, is unclear. It may be an adverb meaning “very much” (BDB 67 s.v.), though some prefer to emend the text to אָפוּגָה (’afugah, “I am numb”) from the verb פוּג (pug; see Pss 38:8; 77:2).
7 tn Or “but.”
8 tn Heb “I make level and make quiet my soul.”
9 tn Heb “like a weaned [one] upon his mother.”
10 tn Heb “like the weaned [one] upon me, my soul.”
11 tn Heb “for I am very low.”
