Mazmur 61:2

61:2 From the most remote place on earth ¹ 

I call out to you in my despair. ² 

Lead me ³  up to an inaccessible rocky summit! ⁴ 

Mazmur 13:2

13:2 How long must I worry, ⁵ 

and suffer in broad daylight? ⁶ 

How long will my enemy gloat over me? ⁷ 

Mazmur 27:6

27:6 Now I will triumph

over my enemies who surround me! ⁸ 

I will offer sacrifices in his dwelling place and shout for joy! ⁹ 

I will sing praises to the Lord!

[61:2]  ¹ tn Heb “from the end of the earth.” This may indicate (1) the psalmist is exiled in a distant land, or (2) it may be hyperbolic (the psalmist feels alienated from God’s presence, as if he were in a distant land).

[61:2]  ² tn Heb “while my heart faints.”

[61:2]  ³ tn The imperfect verbal form here expresses the psalmist’s wish or prayer.

[61:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “on to a rocky summit [that] is higher than I.”

[13:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “How long will I put counsel in my being?”

[13:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “[with] grief in my heart by day.”

[13:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “be exalted over me.” Perhaps one could translate, “How long will my enemy defeat me?”

[27:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “and now my head will be lifted up over my enemies all around me.”

[27:6]  sn In vv. 1-3 the psalmist generalizes, but here we discover that he is facing a crisis and is under attack from enemies (see vv. 11-12).

[27:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “I will sacrifice in his tent sacrifices of a shout for joy” (that is, “sacrifices accompanied by a joyful shout”).