¹ tn Heb “in your vindication rescue me and deliver me.” Ps 31:1 omits “and deliver me.”

² tn Heb “turn toward me your ear.”

³ tn Ps 31:2 adds “quickly” before “deliver.”

⁴ sn Psalm 31. The psalmist confidently asks the Lord to protect him. Enemies threaten him and even his friends have abandoned him, but he looks to the Lord for vindication. In vv. 19-24, which were apparently written after the Lord answered the prayer of vv. 1-18, the psalmist thanks the Lord for delivering him.

⁵ tn Heb “in your vindication rescue me.”