Mazmur 22:24

22:24 For he did not despise or detest the suffering ¹  of the oppressed; ² 

he did not ignore him; ³ 

when he cried out to him, he responded. ⁴ 

Mazmur 74:22

74:22 Rise up, O God! Defend your honor! ⁵ 

Remember how fools insult you all day long! ⁶ 

Mazmur 102:17

102:17 when he responds to the prayer of the destitute, ⁷ 

and does not reject ⁸  their request. ⁹ 

Mazmur 138:6

138:6 Though the Lord is exalted, he takes note of the lowly,

and recognizes the proud from far away.

[22:24]  ¹ tn Or “affliction”; or “need.”

[22:24]  ² sn In this verse the psalmist refers to himself in the third person and characterizes himself as oppressed.

[22:24]  ³ tn Heb “he did not hide his face from him.” For other uses of the idiom “hide the face” meaning “ignore,” see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9. Sometimes the idiom carries the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 27:9; 88:14).

[22:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “heard.”

[74:22]  ⁵ tn Or “defend your cause.”

[74:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “remember your reproach from a fool all the day.”

[102:17]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew adjective עַרְעָר (’arar, “destitute”) occurs only here in the OT. It is derived from the verbal root ערר (“to strip oneself”).

[102:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “despise.”

[102:17]  ⁹ tn The perfect verbal forms in vv. 16-17 are functioning as future perfects, indicating future actions that will precede the future developments described in v. 15.