¹ tn Or “distress.”

¹ tn Or “distress.”

¹ tn Or “distress.”

¹ tn Or “distress” or “grief.”

² tn Grk “distress of nations.”

² tn Heb “his distresses.”

⁴ tn Or “they experienced great distress.”

⁴ tn Or “distressed or fearful and cowardly.”

² tn Heb “from my distresses lead me out.”

³ tn Heb “the distress of his soul.”

² tn Or “very distressed” (L&N 25.277).

⁴ tn Heb “in the day of distress” (so KJV, ASV).

² tn Heb “[Be] also our deliverance in the time of distress.”

² tn Heb “and my shelter in the day of my distress.”

¹ tn Heb “you know the distresses of my life.”

¹ tn Heb “threw them into confusion with all distress.”

¹ tn Heb “in all their distress, there was distress to him” (reading לוֹ [lo] with the margin/Qere).

⁴ tn Heb “in the day of his distress.” In this and the following phrase at the end of v. 13 the suffix is third person masculine singular. As collective singulars both occurrences have been translated as plurals (“they suffered distress…endured distress,” rather than, “he suffered distress…endured distress”).

² tn Heb “in the day of their distress.” The phrase is used three times in this verse; the Hebrew word translated “distress” (אֵידָם, ʾedam) is a wordplay on the name Edom. For stylistic reasons and to avoid monotony, in the present translation this phrase is rendered, “when they experienced distress,” “when they suffered distress,” and “when they endured distress.”

⁴ sn The repetition of the Hebrew noun translated distress draws attention to the fact that they regard their present distress as appropriate punishment for their refusal to ignore their brother when he was in distress.