Mazmur 141:8

141:8 Surely I am looking to you, ¹  O sovereign Lord.

In you I take shelter.

Do not expose me to danger! ² 

Mazmur 71:12

71:12 O God, do not remain far away from me!

My God, hurry and help me! ³ 

Mazmur 94:22

94:22 But the Lord will protect me, ⁴ 

and my God will shelter me. ⁵ 

Mazmur 119:115

119:115 Turn away from me, you evil men,

so that I can observe ⁶  the commands of my God. ⁷ 

[141:8]  ¹ tn Heb “my eyes [are] toward you.”

[141:8]  ² tn Heb “do not lay bare my life.” Only here is the Piel form of the verb collocated with the term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “life”). In Isa 53:12 the Lord’s servant “lays bare (the Hiphil form of the verb is used) his life to death.”

[71:12]  ³ tn Heb “hurry to my help.”

[94:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the Lord has become my elevated place.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive is used in a rhetorical sense, describing an anticipated development as if it were already reality.

[94:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “and my God [has become] a rocky summit of my safety.”

[119:115]  ⁶ tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

[119:115]  ⁷ tn The psalmist has already declared that he observes God’s commands despite persecution, so here the idea must be “so that I might observe the commands of my God unhindered by threats.”