Discovery BoxPsalms 5:2 
Context5:2 Pay attention to my cry for help,
my king and my God,
for I am praying to you!
Psalms 38:11
Context38:11 Because of my condition, 1 even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance; 2
my neighbors stand far away. 3
Psalms 69:3
Context69:3 I am exhausted from shouting for help;
my throat is sore; 4
my eyes grow tired of looking for my God. 5
Psalms 73:26
Context73:26 My flesh and my heart may grow weak, 6
but God always 7 protects my heart and gives me stability. 8
Psalms 91:2
Context91:2 I say this about the Lord, my shelter and my stronghold,
my God in whom I trust –
Psalms 95:9
Context95:9 where your ancestors challenged my authority, 9
and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.
1 tn Or “wound,” or “illness.”
2 tn Heb “stand [aloof].”
3 tn Heb “and the ones near me off at a distance stand.”
4 tn Or perhaps “raw”; Heb “burned; enflamed.”
5 tn Heb “my eyes fail from waiting for my God.” The psalmist has intently kept his eyes open, looking for God to intervene, but now his eyes are watery and bloodshot, impairing his vision.
6 tn The Hebrew verb כָלָה (khalah, “to fail; to grow weak”) does not refer here to physical death per se, but to the physical weakness that sometimes precedes death (see Job 33:21; Pss 71:9; 143:7; Prov 5:11).
7 tn Or “forever.”
8 tn Heb “is the rocky summit of my heart and my portion.” The psalmist compares the
9 tn Heb “where your fathers tested me.”
