² tn Heb “Terror is all around!”

¹ tn Heb “your heart will meditate on terror.”

² tn Heb “and their years in terror.”

² tn Heb “the terror from all around.”

⁴ tn Heb “complete destruction, even terror, he will make.”

⁴ tn Heb “it,” i.e., the “terror” just mentioned.

¹ tn Heb “at the time of evening, look, sudden terror.”

² tn Heb “the terrors of death have fallen on me.”

¹ tn Heb “for the terror of the Lord was upon them.”

² tn Heb “terror of you has fallen upon us.”

³ tn Heb “my terrors” or “my enemies.” The expression מְגוּרַי (m^eguray, “my terrors”) is difficult and may refer to either enemies, the terror associated with facing enemies, or both.

² tn Heb “terror of suddenness.” The noun פִּתְאֹם (pitʾom, “sudden”) functions as an attributive genitive: “sudden terror” (e.g., Job 22:10; BDB 837 s.v.).

¹ tn Heb “I will make you an object of terror to both you and your friends.”

⁴ tn Heb “[We hope] for a time of healing but behold terror.”

¹ tn Heb “[We hoped] for a time of healing but, behold, terror.”

¹ tn Heb “they come to an end, they are finished, from terrors.”

² tn Heb “and look, terror, a great darkness was falling on him.”

⁴ tn Heb “from the terror of [the] enemy.” “Terror” is used here metonymically for the enemy’s attacks that produce fear because they threaten the psalmist’s life.

¹ tn Heb “place, Lord, terror with regard to them.” The Hebrew term מוֹרָה (morah, “terror”) is an alternative form of מוֹרָא (moraʾ; a reading that appears in some mss and finds support in several ancient textual witnesses).

² sn The psalmist uses the same expression in v. 3 to describe the terror he was experiencing. He is confident that the tables will be turned and his enemies will know what absolute terror feels like.