³ tn Or “experience persecution,” “will be in distress” (see L&N 22.2).

² tn Grk “they were pierced to the heart” (an idiom for acute emotional distress).

¹ sn Great distress means that this is a period of great judgment.

⁶ tn See the note on the phrase “suffered distress” in the previous line.

⁷ tn Heb “in the day of adversity”; cf. NASB “in the day of their distress.”

¹ tn Heb “because distress belongs to me” (כִּי־צַר־לִי, ki tsar li).

⁴ tn Heb “for the former distresses will be forgotten, and they will be hidden from my eyes.”

² tn Heb “and the Master will give to you bread—distress, and water—oppression.”

² tn Heb “all joy turns to evening,” the darkness of evening symbolizing distress and sorrow.

³ sn The “night” probably here symbolizes distress and difficult times. See BDB 539 s.v. לַיְלָה.

¹ tn Heb “you who have caused me to see many harmful distresses.”

² tn Heb “and he caused him distress and did not strengthen him.”

¹ tn Heb “and there was distress to Amnon so that he made himself sick.”

² tn Or “Israel experienced great distress.” Perhaps here the verb has the nuance “hemmed in.”

³ tn Heb “day of distress.” See Ps 20:1 which utilizes similar language.

² tn The Niphal verb אָנַח (ʾanakh) means “to sigh; to groan,” usually because of grief or physical and emotional distress. The word is a metonymy of effect; the cause is the oppression and distress due to evil rulers.

⁵ tn Heb “distress and trouble.” The nouns “distress and trouble” mean almost the same thing so they may form a hendiadys. The two similar sounding terms צוּקָה (tsuqah) and צָרָה (tsarah) also form a wordplay (paronomasia) which also links them together.

¹ tn Heb “from the distress.” The noun מֵצַר (metsar, “straits; distress”) occurs only here and in Lam 1:3. In Ps 116:3 מֵצַר should probably be emended to מְצָדֵי (m^etsade, “snares of”).

² tn Or “into great distress.” The suffering here is not specified as physical or emotional, and could involve persecution.

² tn BDAG 71 s.v. ἀνασκευάζω describes this verb with a figurative meaning: “to cause inward distress, upset, unsettle.”