Discovery BoxPsalms 6:9 
Context6:9 The Lord has heard my appeal for mercy;
the Lord has accepted 1 my prayer.
Psalms 77:8-9
Context77:8 Has his loyal love disappeared forever?
Has his promise 2 failed forever?
77:9 Has God forgotten to be merciful?
Has his anger stifled his compassion?”
Psalms 107:9
Context107:9 For he has satisfied those who thirst, 3
and those who hunger he has filled with food. 4
Psalms 145:9
Context145:9 The Lord is good to all,
and has compassion on all he has made. 5
1 tn The prefixed verbal form is probably a preterite here; it is parallel to a perfect and refers to the fact that the
2 tn Heb “word,” which may refer here to God’s word of promise (note the reference to “loyal love” in the preceding line).
3 tn Heb “[the] longing throat.” The noun נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh), which frequently refers to one’s very being or soul, here probably refers to one’s parched “throat” (note the parallelism with נֶפֱשׁ רְעֵבָה, nefesh rÿ’evah, “hungry throat”).
4 tn Heb “and [the] hungry throat he has filled [with] good.”
5 tn Heb “and his compassion is over all his works.”
