² tn Or “quickly.”

² tn Or “quickly.”

¹ tn Or “quickly, soon.”

³ tn Heb “quickly carry me away.”

² tn Heb “they quickly pour out innocent blood.”

³ tn Heb “for quickly was the matter.”

¹ tn Heb “send quickly and tell David saying.”

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

² tn Heb “I, the Lord, in its time, I will quickly do it.”

² sn They are compared to a flowering plant that withers quickly in a hot, arid climate.

² tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord move quickly through all the earth.”

⁵ tn Heb “What you have seen me do, quickly do like me.”

³ tn Heb “hasty, quick.” Some translate here “impetuous” (so NEB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) or “rash,” but in this context greed may very well be the idea. The Babylonians move quickly and recklessly ahead in their greedy quest to expand their empire.

⁴ sn The reference to noon may suggest a sudden, quick defeat (see Jer 6:4; 15:8).

¹ tn Heb “Say to the hasty of heart,” i.e., those whose hearts beat quickly from fear.

⁶ sn We fly away. The psalmist compares life to a bird that quickly flies off (see Job 20:8).

³ tn Heb “causes its hands to run,” which must mean “quickly stretches out its hands” (to present tribute).

² tn The Hebrew is simply “fell” (from נָפַל, nafal). To “fall upon” something in war means to attack quickly and suddenly.

² tn Or “be destroyed”; KJV “utterly perish”; NLT “will quickly disappear”; CEV “you won’t have long to live.”

¹ tn The first two verbs form a hendiadys: “he hurried…he bowed,” meaning “he quickly bowed down.”