Text -- Psalms 55:18 (NET)

55:18 He will rescue me and protect me from those who attack me, even though they greatly outnumber me.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 55:18

¹ tn The perfect verbal form is here used rhetorically to indicate that the action is certain to take place (the so-called perfect of certitude).

² tn Heb “he will redeem in peace my life from [those who] draw near to me.”

³ tn Or “for.”

⁴ tn Heb “among many they are against me.” For other examples of the preposition עִמָּד (’immad) used in the sense of “at, against,” see HALOT 842 s.v.; BDB 767 s.v.; IBHS 219 §11.2.14b.