Mazmur 55:4-5

55:4 My heart beats violently ¹  within me;

the horrors of death overcome me. ² 

55:5 Fear and panic overpower me; ³ 

terror overwhelms ⁴  me.

Mazmur 55:16

55:16 As for me, I will call out to God,

and the Lord will deliver me.

[55:4]  ¹ tn Heb “shakes, trembles.”

[55:4]  ² tn Heb “the terrors of death have fallen on me.”

[55:5]  ³ tn Heb “fear and trembling enter into me.”

[55:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “covers.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive carries on the descriptive (present progressive) force of the preceding imperfect.