³ tn The MT reads “and to cause your soul grief.” The LXX, a Qumran ms, and a few old Latin mss read “his soul.”

¹ tn Heb “and they will weep concerning you with bitterness of soul, (with) bitter mourning.”

⁴ tn Heb “human lives” or “souls” (three times in v. 18 and twice in v. 19).

⁶ tn Heb “their being [or “soul”] takes delight in their disgusting [things].”

¹ tn Heb “with my soul I.” This is a figure for the speaker himself (“I”).

⁴ tc The LXX adds, “Deceitful souls go astray in sins, but the righteous are pitiful and merciful.”

² sn For poetic effect the psalmist addresses his soul, or inner self.

² sn For poetic effect the psalmist addresses his soul, or inner self.

² sn For poetic effect the psalmist addresses his soul, or inner self.

¹ tn Heb “then my soul will rejoice in the Lord and be happy in his deliverance.”

² tn Heb “the souls of the wounded,” which here refers to the wounded themselves.

³ tn Heb “for bitter was the soul of all the people, each one.”

¹ tn Heb “to all the desire of your soul to come down.”

² tn Heb “according to all the desire of your soul you may eat meat.”

³ tn Heb “you shall humble your souls.” See the note on Lev 16:29 above.

⁵ tn Literally “her” (a feminine pronoun agreeing with “soul/life,” which is grammatically feminine).

¹ tn Heb “his soul stuck to [or “joined with”],” meaning Shechem became very attached to Dinah emotionally.

¹ tn Heb “my soul.” The term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “soul”) is often used as a metonymy for the life and the animating vitality in the body: “my life” (BDB 659 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 3.c).

³ tc The MT reads נַפְשִׁי (nafshi, “my soul”); however, the Masoretic scribes preserve an alternate textual tradition, included in some lists of the Tiqqune Sopherim (“corrections by the scribes”), of נַפְשֶׁךָ (nafshekha, “your soul”).

¹ tc The MT reads נַפְשִׁי (nafshi, “my soul”); however, the Masoretic scribes preserve an alternate textual tradition, marked by the Tiqqune Sopherim (“corrections by the scribes”), of נַפְשֶׁךָ (nafshekha, “your soul”).