¹ tn Heb “youth.”

² tn Heb “from their youth.”

³ tn Heb “lad” or “youth.”

⁷ tn Heb “from his youth.”

³ tn Heb “the loyal love of your youth.”

¹ tn Heb “and am dying from youth.”

¹ tn Heb “in your youth”; or “in your childhood.”

² tn Heb “the second youth.” It is not clear whether “the second” (הַשֵּׁנִי, hasheni) refers to the young man who succeeds the old king or a second youthful successor.

¹ tn Heb “the Lord is a witness between you and [between] the wife of your youth.”

¹ tn Or perhaps “for the land has been my possession since my youth” (so NRSV; similar NAB).

³ tn Heb “as in the days of her youth” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

⁴ tn Heb “in his youth.” The preposition ב (bet) functions in a temporal sense: “when.”

¹ tn Heb “the days of his youth” (see as well Job 33:25).

¹ tn Heb “O Lord Yahweh, my source of confidence from my youth.”

² sn That is, the sins characteristic of youths, who lack moral discretion and wisdom.

² sn This line means that he dies prematurely—at the height of his youthful vigor.

¹ tn The qualification comes at the end of the verse, and simply says “in her youth.”

¹ tn Heb “the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth.”

¹ tn The Hebrew term יֶלֶד (yeled) probably refers to a youthful warrior here, not a child.

⁵ sn The point of the metaphor is not entirely clear. The dew may symbolize the king’s youthful vitality or, more likely (note the parallelism), may refer to his army of strong, youthful warriors.