Discovery BoxPsalms 57:6 
Context57:6 They have prepared a net to trap me; 1
I am discouraged. 2
They have dug a pit for me. 3
They will fall 4 into it! (Selah)
Psalms 90:5
Context90:5 You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.” 5
In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;
1 tn Heb “for my feet.”
2 tn Heb “my life bends low.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) with a pronominal suffix is often equivalent to a pronoun, especially in poetry (see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 4.a).
3 tn Heb “before me.”
4 tn The perfect form is used rhetorically here to express the psalmist’s certitude. The demise of the enemies is so certain that he can speak of it as already accomplished.
5 tn Heb “you bring them to an end [with] sleep.” The Hebrew verb זָרַם (zaram) has traditionally been taken to mean “flood” or “overwhelm” (note the Polel form of a root זרם in Ps 77:17, where the verb is used of the clouds pouring down rain). However, the verb form here is Qal, not Polel, and is better understood as a homonym meaning “to make an end [of life].” The term שֵׁנָה (shenah, “sleep”) can be taken as an adverbial accusative; it is a euphemism here for death (see Ps 76:5-6).
