Mazmur 35:14

35:14 I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. ¹ 

I bowed down ²  in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother. ³ 

Mazmur 88:18

88:18 You cause my friends and neighbors to keep their distance; ⁴ 

those who know me leave me alone in the darkness. ⁵ 

Mazmur 122:8

122:8 For the sake of my brothers and my neighbors

I will say, “May there be peace in you!”

[35:14]  ¹ tn Heb “like a friend, like a brother to me I walked about.”

[35:14]  ² sn I bowed down. Bowing down was a posture for mourning. See Ps 38:6.

[35:14]  ³ tn Heb “like mourning for a mother [in] sorrow I bowed down.”

[88:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “you cause to be far from me friend and neighbor.”

[88:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “those known by me, darkness.”