Mazmur 6:6

6:6 I am exhausted as I groan;

all night long I drench my bed in tears; ¹ 

my tears saturate the cushion beneath me. ² 

Mazmur 88:12

88:12 Are your amazing deeds experienced ³  in the dark region, ⁴ 

or your deliverance in the land of oblivion? ⁵ 

[6:6]  ¹ tn Heb “I cause to swim through all the night my bed.”

[6:6]  ² tn Heb “with my tears my bed I flood/melt.”

[88:12]  ³ tn Heb “known.”

[88:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “darkness,” here a title for Sheol.

[88:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “forgetfulness.” The noun, which occurs only here in the OT, is derived from a verbal root meaning “to forget.”

[88:12]  sn The rhetorical questions in vv. 10-12 expect the answer, “Of course not!”