¹ tn The participle is used here for durative action in the past time (GKC 359 §116.o).

¹ tn The wish is introduced with the Hebrew particle לוּ (lu), “O that.”

¹ tn Grk “O” (an interjection used both in address and emotion). In context the following section is highly charged emotionally.

⁴ sn For a discussion of the agricultural background, see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 128-29.

¹ tn Heb “O house of Israel” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV); cf. NLT “all of Israel’s leaders.”

¹ tn Heb “O Lord, are your eyes not to faithfulness?” The question is rhetorical and expects a positive answer.

¹ tn Or “O heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.

¹ tn The words “O Lord” are supplied in the translation for clarification. Isaiah addresses the Lord in prayer.

² tn Heb “O the happiness of the one who repays you your wage which you paid to us.”

² tn Heb “O Lord, your remembrance [is] for a generation and a generation.” See Ps 102:12.

² tn Heb “the waves lift up, O Lord, the waves lift up their voice, the waves lift up their crashing.”

¹ tn Heb “[by] which your enemies, O Lord, taunt, [by] which they taunt [at] the heels of your anointed one.”

¹ tn Heb “as for me, [may] my prayer be to you, O Lord, [in] a time of favor.”

² tn Heb “O God, in the abundance of your loyal love, answer me in the faithfulness of your deliverance.”

² tn Heb “make them roam around by your strength and bring them down, O our shield, the Lord.”

¹ tn Heb “Cause me to know, O Lord, my end; and the measure of my days, what it is!”

¹ tn This clause is in apposition to the preceding (see GKC 426 §131.o). It offers a clarification.

¹ tn Heb “and now, O Lord God, the word which you spoke concerning your servant and concerning his house, establish permanently.”

¹ sn The wheat harvest took place during the month of May. See O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 37, 88.

¹ tn Heb “the year of the fifty years,” or perhaps “the year, fifty years” (GKC 435 §134.o, note 2).